Cassava farmers rejoice as "Pichai" joins hands with a giant Chinese importer to purchase over 980,000 tons of Thai cassava worth 8 billion baht, confident in absorbing 3 million tons of fresh cassava roots, hoping to raise the price of cassava by 2.50 baht/kg, and accelerating negotiations to clear 280,000 tons of G2G rice in the pipeline this year.
Today (16 January 2025), Mr. Pichai Naripthaphan, Minister of Commerce, said after the signing ceremony of the Purchasing Order and Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between Thai entrepreneurs and a major agricultural importing agency, China, that in order to absorb domestic cassava production, it would send a positive signal to the entire cassava industry and raise the price of cassava for cassava farmers. สล็อต