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Thai export rice prices experienced downward pressure and then slightly recovered after Songkran holidays, reflecting tariff changes and adjustments in the global rice market.

MY 2025/26 sugar production is expected to further increase 2 percent from MY 2024/25. MY 2024/25 sugar demand by industrial uses is likely to decline significantly due to the Chinese ban on Thai sugar syrup exports.

FAS Bangkok forecasts stability, with modest growth expected in rice and corn production, supported by favorable weather and strong domestic demand.

MY 2025/26 soybean crushing demand to grow at a slower pace of two percent due to slow economic recovery with uncertainties from the U.S. reciprocal tariff measures.

Export prices were virtually unchanged while traders are awaiting the new tenders for 3.8 million metric tons on July 25.

Export prices declined around one percent in anticipation of large sales of government stocks in the new tenders for 3.8 million metric tons on July 25.

Export prices increased 2 to 5 percent due to tight domestic supplies of white rice paddy and the strengthening of the Thai baht.

The sowing of the MY2016/17 main-rice crop is progressing slowly due to limited irrigated water supplies.