Rural Thailand : : Change and Continuity / / Porphant Ouyyanont.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus eBook-Package 2016
• VerfasserIn: Ouyyanont, Porphant,
• Place / Publishing House: Singapore : : ISEAS Publishing, , [2016]; ©2016
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (31 p.)

Despite rapid industrialization in Thailand, the contribution of agriculture to GDP remains unusually high. The share of agricultural employment in total employment has also remained high, relative to the country's income level, as has the share of the rural population relative to the total population. Agribusiness has grown significantly, and there has been a rise in the number of large and strongly financed commercial farms that are less labour intensive. Contract farming has also been developing. The introduction of a rice premium by the government obstructed the modernization of the agricultural rice sector and caused the rice share in GDP to steadily decline, while that for upland crops such as cassava, maize, sugarcane, and oil palm increased. However, rice remains the most important crop. The high proportion of the population still living in rural areas and working in the agricultural sector attests to the resilience of that sector in the face of industrialization.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- FOREWORD -- EXECUTIVE SUMMARY -- INTRODUCTION -- AN UNUSUALLY SMALL REDUCTION IN THE RURAL POPULATION -- CHANGES IN RURAL AGRICULTURE AND INDUSTRIALIZATION -- CHANGE IN THE STRUCTURE OF THE RURAL ECONOMY -- PHYSICAL INFRASTRUCTURE AND THE TRANSFORMATION OF RURAL THAILAND -- THE TRANSFORMATION OF RURAL HOUSEHOLD ECONOMIES -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES