The association’s president Somsak Paneetatyasai said this year’s production was 7 per cent less than the 290,000 tonnes produced in 2019, adding that farmers held back on production due to prawn disease and concerns over the Covid-19 situation.
Apart from Thailand, the prawn production has dropped in China by 12 per cent, Vietnam by 6 per cent and India by 5 per cent. However, the association’s vice president Bunjonk Nisspawanich said he was glad that the outbreak has affected the prawn industry only slightly, adding that this has helped preserve the trust of importers.
Somsak, meanwhile, said he expects total export of prawns to come in at 150,000 tonnes by the end of the year worth Bt44 billion in value.
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