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COUNTRY FOCUS

recovery, to 19.3 million tonnes (18.5 million last year)."
The government sell-off of reserves would bring down
stocks.
"In Thailand, where the government continues to dispose
of old crop reserves, inventories are projected at a 10-year
low," the IGC said. "Due to ongoing sales of states reserves,
Thailand's end-season stocks are predicted to fall to a six-year
low of 6 million tonnes (8.1 million last year). On the supply
side, the Thai government sold almost 1.7 million tonnes of
old crop reserves in its latest auction, although supplies are yet
to be released to exporters."
Thailand's rice exports between January 2017 and April
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that is up slightly on the year and the highest since 2011.
"Data show that deliveries to sub-Saharan Africa expanded
E\RQH¿IWKWRDQLQH\HDUSHDNRIPLOOLRQWRQQHVLQFOXGing substantially larger dispatches to Angola, Benin (mainly
for transshipment to Nigeria), Senegal and South Africa," the
IGC said, as part of an analysis of that part of Africa's rice
imports. "While the region's buyers have imported more parboiled supplies, rising by 30%, to 640,000 tonnes, the overall
increase was also underpinned by larger purchases of white
and broken rice.

"World market availabilities were boosted by the Thai government's stock releases and, with offer prices likely pegged
at big discounts to open market values, sizeable amounts of
low-quality rice have been shipped to Africa."
MOST WHEAT IMPORTED
Thailand produces little wheat.
"Wheat production is marginal in Thailand due to unfavorable climatic conditions, the lack of seed development, and
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said. "Total production is estimated at approximately 300 to
400 tonnes on a cultivated area of around 1,000 rai (160 hectares). Cultivation is mainly in the upper northern regions of
the country as a minor crop after the main-crop rice harvest,
particularly in the provinces of Maehongson and Nan."
7KHDWWDFKpIRUHFDVWDUHGXFWLRQRILQZKHDWFRQVXPStion in 2017-18 to approximately 2.8 million tonnes in the
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million.
"Demand for feed wheat as a substitute for domestic corn
and broken rice in poultry and swine feed rations should sigQL¿FDQWO\GHFOLQHDVWKHJRYHUQPHQW¶VLPSRUWUHVWULFWLRQVRQ
feed wheat are expected to remain in place," the report said.

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