Agricultural prices were affected by increasing demand
from the global economic recovery, rising demand for energy
crops as well as supply disruption from occurrences of natural
disasters in various countries, including Thailand. In particular,
prices of cassava and oil palm increased rapidly. Meanwhile, prices
of commodities excluding fuel also surged by 21.4 percent on a
yearly average basis. Since the Thai economy exhibited a net
trade surplus in non-oil commodities, rising agricultural prices
were beneficial to farmers. Thus, farm income registered a strong
growth rate of 24.0 percent despite lower agricultural supply
caused by occurrences of natural disaster