What is Thailand's economic development like agriculture?

Thailand is the world's largest exporter of rice and natural rubber. Agriculture is Thailand's traditional economic industry, and the country's arable land area accounts for about 41% of the country's land area. Agricultural products are one of the main sources of Thailand's foreign exchange earnings.

Thailand's sea is vast, the Gulf of Thailand and the Andaman Sea is a unique natural marine fishing grounds. Bangkok, Songkhla, Phuket and other places are important fishing centers and distribution of fishery products. Thailand is one of the major suppliers of fish products to the world market and the third largest marine fishing country in Asia after Japan and China.

The structure of Thailand's economy has changed significantly with the rapid economic development. While agriculture still plays an important role in the national economy, the manufacturing sector has become an increasingly important part of the economy. Manufacturing has become the largest industry and one of the major export industries. A major feature of Thailand's industrialization process is to make full use of its rich agricultural resources to develop food processing and its related manufacturing industry, the main industrial sectors are: mining, textiles, electronics, plastics, food processing, toys, automobile assembly, building materials, petrochemicals and so on. Since the 1980s, exports have gradually shifted from mainly agricultural products to mainly industrial products, with major exports including: automatic data processing machines, integrated circuit boards, automobiles and spare parts, garments, fresh and frozen shrimp, gems and jewelry, primary chemical fibers, rice, radios and televisions, rubber, etc.; and major imports including: electronic and industrial machinery, integrated circuits, chemicals, computer parts, steel , jewelry, metal products, etc.

Thailand became the automobile manufacturing center for the Association of Southeast Asian Nations market.

The tourism industry maintains a steady momentum of development and is one of the important sources of foreign exchange earnings. The main tourist spots are Bangkok, Phuket, Chiang Mai, Pattaya, Chiang Rai, Hua Hin, Koh Samui and so on.