BANGKOK (The Nation/ANN): Thailand has dropped to the 13th place globally in food exports owing to dropping demand due to the pandemic, appreciation of the baht, shortage of shipping containers and rising cost of logistics.
Anong Paijitprapapon, president of the National Food Institute, said on Thursday (Feb 18) that Thailand’s food manufacturing sector contracted 6.5 per cent in 2020 due to a drop in both local consumption and exports.
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