Sweet corn canners fear lack of supply as Russian demand grows

摘要

SWEET corn canneries based in central regions of Thailand will struggle to get sufficient quantities of raw material for processing in the next few months due to heavy rains and flooding that has resulted in nearly 100 people being killed and millionsdisplaced. The floods have spread to 38 of Thailand's 76 provinces although the waters have receded in 11 of those, officials from the Emergency Medical Institute of Thailand said. Around 1.6 million acres of farmland have been destroyed so far, according to the government's Office of Agricultural Economics, which is equivalent to 3% of available farmland. Rice and sugar fields, in particular, have been seriously affected.