Editing Palm oil (section)

===Thailand===
[[Thailand]] is the world's third-largest producer of crude palm oil, producing 3.6 million tonnes in 2023-24.<ref name=fas/> Nearly all of Thai production is consumed locally. Almost 85% of palm plantations and extraction mills are in south Thailand. At year-end 2016, 4.7 to 5.8 million [[Rai (unit)|rai]] ({{convert|750,000 to 930,000|ha|acre|disp=semicolon}}) were planted in oil palms, employing 300,000 farmers, mostly on small landholdings of 20 rai ({{convert|3.2|ha|acre|disp=semicolon}}). [[ASEAN]] as a region accounts for {{convert|52.5|e6MT|e6ST|abbr=off}} of palm oil production, about 85% of the world total and more than 90% of global exports. Indonesia accounts for 52% of world exports. Malaysian exports total 38%. The biggest consumers of palm oil are India, the European Union, and China, with the three consuming nearly 50% of world exports. Thailand's Department of Internal Trade (DIT) usually sets the price of crude palm oil and refined palm oil Thai farmers have a relatively low yield compared to those in Malaysia and Indonesia. Thai palm oil crops yield 4–17% oil compared to around 20% in competing countries. In addition, Indonesian and Malaysian oil palm plantations are 10 times the size of Thai plantations.<ref name="BP-20180128">{{cite news|last1=Arunmas|first1=Phusadee|last2=Wipatayotin|first2=Apinya|date=28 January 2018|title=EU move fuelling unease among palm oil producers|work=Bangkok Post|department=Spectrum|url=https://www.bangkokpost.com/business/news/1403374/eu-move-fuelling-unease-among-palm-oil-producers|access-date=29 January 2018}}</ref>