Fruits and vegetables from Thailand
Fruit and vegetable is the exports products that make a lot of income to Thailand, In each year, Thai exports fresh fruit and frozen vegetables is value around 3-4 thousand million per year, and average growth rate is 15-20%, because of Thailand have a various of fruits and vegetable production result in advantage of type item and flexible in volume of export ,and also Thai fruit and vegetable are high-quality products, product from Thailand are popular and accepted by consumers overseas.
The major export markets of Thai fruit and vegetable are China, Viet Nam, Hong Kong, Japan and Indonesia accounted for 79% of the total proportion of the value of all exports. At the same time, there are other markets that have a high growth rate, such as Myanmar, where the market has expanded at 45% and South Korea ,where the market are expanding at 20%.
In China market, although at present China is the country as a competitor in the market of Fruits and vegetables, but at the same time many state of China are important distribution center. The fruit that is popular in China is longan, mangosteen, durian, banana,. Rambutan and rose apple, all of these fruit are sell in general fruit shop and include to supermarkets
In European markets, such as Greece and Switzerland, dry pineapple and Crystallized pineapple are very popular because of the quality and good taste, but due to the pineapple that imports from Thailand are higher-priced than imported from South America or Africa, result in the market share in Switzerland is still not much.
For the United States market. The popular Thai fruits in the United States West Coast market is mangosteen, longan and Rambutan While the markets in California and neighboring States have high demand of mango from Thai In addition young coconut and healthy fruit juice such as longan juice , mangosteen juice or the juice that come from the Royal project has been sent to suppliers in the United States, but potential of expanded are still not much. Mango from Thai are still cannot compete with mango from Mexico because of the cost of air freight are so high and also quality of mango from Thai cannot endurance with transport by boat that may take long time in transport