Value of Japanese food imports up 20%

Mr Kuroda, left, and Taniguchi Hiroki, director of Agriculture and Food department at Jetro Bangkok, introduced the campaign to promote Japanese food products.

The value of imported fresh and processed Japanese food to Thailand is expected to grow by 20% this year, as the Japanese restaurant business in Thailand starts to recover following an easing in the Covid-19 situation.

Jun Kuroda, president and chief representative for Asean at the Japan External Trade Organisation (Jetro), said the import value of Japanese agricultural and food products to Thailand in the first eight months of this year had already grown by 17% over the same period last year to ¥34.6 billion or 8.19 billion baht.