
Thai jasmin rice export quantity, 2015-2019. It is an interesting issue to study the impact factor affecting export value to maintain the export market and to find out the recommended policy to develop Thai rice export in international market.ġ) Secondary data: the data based on rice export value and trade situation of rice in Thailand and the keys competitors in the world and Chinese market. According to the rice trade situation in Thailand from 2015 to 2019 showed in Table 1 it is found that Thailand export rice value in 2015 is 1,477,869 tons and decreased to 1,336,238 tons in 2016 and increased continually in 2017-2019 (1,385,027, 1,535,633, 1607, 356 tons, respectively) (Information Technology and Communication Center Ministry of Commerce, 2020).Īlthough Thai rice export value has been increasing, Thailand still is a second of rice production volume in the world (Ma, 2018).Īccording to the report, Thai Jasmin rice trends to be positive. In 2017, Hom Mali rice picked up the world’s best rice 2017 winner at the eight World Rice Conference (Bangkok post, 2017). Thai Hom Mali rice or Jasmin rice became the world-renowned rice. Thailand is the world’s top of rice production base and export to other countries worldwide (Krishnapong, 2017). Currently, Thailand has 78.99 million rai of rice plantation area nationwide, which yields annual paddy output of 30 - 32 million tones or equivalent to 20 million tons of rice (OAE, 2016). The major rice exporter is Thailand, India, and Vietnam.

Most of the rice production is mainly for domestic consumption. Over 90 percent of rice production in the world is produced and consumed in the Asia-Pacific region (Krishnapong, 2017). Asia is the key resource of rice production in the world because Asian livelihood is highly dependent on rice for food and economics.
