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Export push for cassava as govt eyes processing hub

FOOD FOR THOUGHT: Deputy Prime Minister and Commerce Minister Jurin Laksanawisit, centre, opens this year's World Tapioca Conference in Nakhon Ratchasima province. During the event, Thailand signed an MoU on a deal to export 4.7 million tonnes of cassava to China, Hong Kong and Turkey worth over 20 billion baht.

Nakhon Ratchasima is poised to be the country's cassava growing and processing hub despite forecast of a reduced productivity this year.

Deputy Prime Minister and Commerce Minister Jurin Laksanawisit, who presided over the three-day World Tapioca Conference 2023 which ended on Saturday in Nakhon Ratchasima, told the forum on Friday that the government was driven by an ambition to turn the province into cassava growing and processing hub under a management master plan for the cash crop.

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