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Monday, December 23, 2013
Thai chicken prices soar ahead of New Year (week ended Dec 20, 2013)
The Department of Livestock announced that Japan has approved Thai frozen chicken exports to the country, with the first shipment expected to begin in January 2014. The announcement is expected to boost demand for Thai chicken and thus its ...
Tuesday, December 10, 2013
Thailand's chicken price increase, Russia banned Thai chicken on manganese contamination (week ended Dec 6, 2013)
Thai chicken price is on uptrend ahead of New Year while chicken production is lowered. Demand in the Northeastern region is still driven by high travel season during the winter season. Prices in Bangkok, the central, eastern and western re ...
Thursday, November 28, 2013
Thai chicken price stable while exports to ASEAN, Middle East improves (week ended Nov 22,2013)
During the first nine months of this year, processed chicken export was valued at US$1,450.60 million, a decline of 2.5% on year, while in September 2013, processedchicken exports was worth US$169.2 million, with growth of 7.5% on-year. Thi ...
Monday, February 18, 2013
Thai chicken exporters urge government to reopen Japan market amid falling prices (week ended Feb 8, 2013)
Chaweewan Kampa, president of the poultry promotion association of Thailand said that current chicken farm gate price of THB35-38/kg (US$1.16-US$1.26/kg) is lower than its cost per kilogramme at THB 38 (US$1.26/kg). The price declined due t ...
Thursday, January 3, 2013
Thai chicken exports to South Korea, Japan may resume soon
The resumption of fresh chicken exports to South Korea and Japan is expected to happen very soon by Thailand as those nations feel more confident about Thai producers' hygiene and safety from bird flu. Pranee Siriphand, director-general of ...
Monday, December 10, 2012
Thai Broiler Weekly: Thai chicken exporter hopes Japan will re-open fresh chicken in next 2 months (week ended Dec 4, 2012)
A site visit to Thai chicken farms, slaughter houses and processing plants will be arranged for a Japanese delegation within the next two months. The EU's quota for Thailand is 92,061 tonnes for fresh broiler and 160,033 tonnes for cooked b ...
Monday, November 12, 2012
Thai Broiler Weekly: Thai chicken demand increased after Buddhist lent ended last week (week ended Nov 6, 2012)
Four months after EU reopens its market for Thai fresh chicken exports (since the ban in 2004), the problem shifted to the higher cost of feed raw materials. Saha Farms Group, a big player in this market, has problems meeting their order af ...
Thursday, September 27, 2012
Thai Broiler Weekly: Downward spiral in Thai chicken prices continues (week ended Sep 21, 2012)
The Thai Office of Agricultural Economics (OAE) says the price drop was due to sluggish domestic consumption fueled by flooding and heavy rains in some parts of the country in the past few weeks. Consumers tend to shy away from the market d ...
Tuesday, September 18, 2012
Thai Broiler Weekly: Retail prices of Thai chicken tumble as oversupply persists (week ended Sep 14, 2012)
Chaisaks Boonprasopthanachote, CEO of Thai Foods Group, a major chicken producer focusing on the domestic market, said he doesn't see chicken prices improving until next year because of the worsening oversupply situation. At a livestock sem ...
Wednesday, September 12, 2012
Thai Broiler Weekly: Strong EU demand to cause Thai chicken shortage soon, top exporter says (week ended Sep 7, 2012)
The Saha Farms Group, which used to be Thailand's number one chicken exporter before the 2004 bird-flu contagion, expects Thai chicken exports to Europe to soar in the next few months following the lifting of the EU ban on uncooked Thai chi ...
Monday, September 3, 2012
Thai Broiler Weekly: Thai chicken exports unaffected by EU debt crisis (week ended Aug 31, 2012)
Spooked by the EU debt crisis, Thailand's exports have been shrinking during the last few months. In April, the Commerce Ministry reports, Thai shipments shrank by 4.46% overall, with agricultural goods dropping 6.6%. While shipments of oth ...
Thursday, August 30, 2012
Thai Broiler Weekly: Thai chicken oversupply easing as big farmers slow down production (week ended Aug 24, 2012)
Thai chicken prices have slumped since March on high inventory due to industry-wide expansions following a 9% chicken export growth in 2011. They plunged to as low as THB24/kg (US$.76/kg), before creeping back to THB34-36/kg (US$1.09-1.15/k ...
Tuesday, August 21, 2012
Thai Broiler Weekly: Thai chicken prices stabilising, says government - but operators are pessimistic (week ended Aug 17, 2012)
Chicken producers, however, remain pessimistic. GFPT, a leading integrator which reported a net loss of THB16 million (US$509,000) during the second quarter due to weak broiler prices, expects prices to remain weak till the end of the year. ...
Thursday, August 2, 2012
Thai Broiler Weekly: Thai chicken prices languish as export prospects to Europe dim (week ended Jul 20, 2012)
The University of the Thai Chamber of Commerce expects Thailand's goods exports to Europe to contract by 4.5% this year compared with last year's growth of 12%. Aside from chicken, Thailand's major exports to the EU include electronics, raw ...
Wednesday, August 1, 2012
Thai Broiler Weekly: Farm price of Thai chicken falls anew on lingering oversupply (week ended Jul 27, 2012)
Thailand's live broiler prices weakened anew this week, slipping back to THB35/kg (US$1.11/kg) on the average, as inventory piles up pending the resumption of frozen chicken exports to Europe next month. Local consumption has not been of an ...

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