Nonthaburi, May 17 – The director of the NGO revealed that the export sales of white shrimp in 2022 amounted to 98,800.1 tons, valued at $ 1,072.0 million. grew 83.4 percent from the previous year. despite a slight decrease in productivity Identified after adjusting the agricultural production guidelines, commercial markets, resulting in increased exports of Thai shrimp

Mr. Poonpong Naiyanapakorn, director of the Trade Policy and Strategy Office (TPP), Ministry of Commerce, revealed that the FTP together with the Office of Agricultural Economics (FPA) created an agricultural product dashboard under the policy "Agriculture Produce, Commercial Market” recently published a vannamei shrimp dashboard (white shrimp) by collecting information from production, price, export market of Thailand. and opportunities to expand exports Those interested can access the information through the website www.kidtra.com. In 2022, Thailand had white shrimp production of about 2.4 hundred thousand tons, a decrease of 0.07 percent from the previous year. There are more than 270,000 rai of farmland across the country and there are 22,336 farms. Most of the produce comes from the southern region (62.34 percent of the total country's production), followed by the eastern region (25.06 percent) and the central region (12.60 percent). ) for the first 3 provinces with the highest production are Surat Thani (40,950 tons), Chachoengsao (20,356 tons) and Trang (18,

In terms of price, it was found that in the first 3 months of 2023, the average price of Thai white shrimp sold by farmers (size 51-60 pieces/kg) was 175.6 baht/kg, which was the price of Pak Bo shrimp of the market leader country (size 50 head/kg), for example, Ecuador and India had lower prices than Thailand (106.5 and 137.5 baht/kg respectively), while Vietnam The price is higher than Thailand (180.3 baht / kg) by Thai exports. In 2022, Thailand exported white shrimp and its products in the amount of 98,800.1 tons, valued at $ 1,072.0 million. (expanded 83.4 percent from the previous year) divided into 3 groups: (1) Live white shrimp, fresh, chilled and frozen USD 576.91 million (expanded by 784.0 percent) (2) white shrimp prepared or preserved not packaged in airtight containers, USD 174.2 million (17.8% contraction); and (3) white shrimp, cooked or preserved. Packed in an airtight container, $320.88 million (Expanded by 5 percent. 3) Thailand's major export markets are the United States, Japan and China, accounting for 27.0 percent, 27.0 and 17.6 percent of the Thai shrimp export value, respectively. Together, they accounted for more than 70 percent of the total white shrimp export value of Thailand.

However, if comparing the world's exports of shrimp and products, in 2021 the world's export value was 26,429.7 million US dollars. The top 5 exporters are (1) India (21.7% of world export value) (2) Ecuador (19.5%) (3) Vietnam (14.8%) (4) Indonesia (8.4%). ) (5) China (7.5%), with Thailand being the 6th rank (5.5%). Therefore, if considering the value of Thai exports It was found that more than 50 percent were exported in the form of live white shrimp, fresh, chilled and frozen, which is only the primary production, so Thailand can develop into the production of higher value agricultural products. Avoid price competition (Ecuador, India, Indonesia, and Vietnam, mainly for export in the form of frozen shrimp. While China exports a larger proportion of cooked shrimp), it was found that the world average export price (latest data for 2020) of 3 product groups is as follows: (1) Live shrimp, fresh, chilled, frozen, valued at 6, 972 USD/ton (2) Shrimp prepared or preserved Not packaged in airtight containers valued at US$ 9,876/ton and (3) shrimp cooked or preserved. Packed in an airtight container, valued at $10,628/ton.

The Thai government has set a target to increase marine shrimp production to 400,000 tons in 2023 and pay attention to solving epidemic problems. access to farmers' credit Create a sales funnel and use technology to increase production efficiency. And Thailand must accelerate development to become a leading country in the production of high-value agricultural and processed agricultural products. – Thai News Agency

Source: Thai News Agency