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Sales of precooked rice packs have been upbeat amid the coronavirus pandemic.

Rice exports plunged 23 per cent year on year in volume and value in the first quarter of 2021, relegating Thailand to third place among top rice exporting countries.

The Cabinet agreed on Tuesday to reduce export tariff for rice heading to Europe and the United Kingdom in a bid to boost the competitiveness of Thai rice in the world market.

The Central Administrative Court on Friday revoked a Finance Ministry order demanding that former prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra pay Bt35 billion in compensation for her government’s rice-pledging scheme.

Thai rice exports for January totalled 421,477 tonnes, dropping 23.2 per cent from the same period last year, the Thai Rice Exporters Association reported on Tuesday.

The Cabinet on Tuesday approved over Bt32.6 billion in subsidies for rice and oil palm farmers.

Several agricultural products will see rise in prices in February due to the improving Covid-19 situation and increased domestic demand during the Chinese New Year festival, according to the Research and Innovation Development Centre at the Bank for Agriculture and Agricultural Cooperatives (BAAC).

Thailand’s rice export target has been set at 6 million tonnes this year, the Commerce Ministry reported on Monday.

Thai jasmine rice exports in the first 11 months of 2020 grew 1.57 per cent from a year earlier, the Commerce Ministry revealed on Wednesday.

President of the association, Charoen Laothamatas, said it would be the first time that Thai exports would be lower than that of Vietnam, which is expected to export a total of 6 million tonnes.

A farmer in Nakhon Ratchasima province is desperately attempting to sell rice that has mostly been damaged by the flood.

Thailand’s jasmine 105 has been named the world’s best-tasting rice this year at the 12th World Rice Conference, which was held online from Tuesday to Thursday.