Thailand's three pillar industries are manufacturing, agriculture and tourism.
Thailand's liberal economic policy, in the 1990s, economic development faster, among the "four Asian tigers", but in the "1998 economic crisis" suffered a major setback, and then fell into recession and stagnation, the world's emerging Industrialized countries and one of the world's emerging market economies.
Thailand is the only net food exporter in Asia and one of the world's top five agricultural exporters. The electronics industry and other manufacturing industries are developing rapidly, with obvious changes in the industrial structure, and the automobile industry is a pillar industry, which is the automobile manufacturing center in Southeast Asia and the largest automobile market in ASEAN.
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The following are the pillars of Thailand's economy in detail:
I, Agriculture: agriculture is Thailand's pillar industry, agricultural products is one of the main commodities of foreign trade exports, the main agricultural products include rice, rubber, cassava, corn, sugar cane, tropical fruits, etc. The country's arable land area of 1,573.5 million square meters. The country's cultivated land area is 15.735 million hectares, accounting for 30.8% of the country's land area.In 2014, Thailand's agricultural output was valued at 42.9 billion U.S. dollars, accounting for 11.6% of GDP.
1, rice: the world's leading rice producer and exporter, the country's paddy field area **** 11.95 million hectares, accounting for more than one-fifth of the total land area, accounting for more than two-thirds of the country's total arable land area; engaged in rice production of about 4 million farm households.
Since the 21st century rice annual output of about 20 million tons, had perennial ranked the world's first rice exporter. 2014 Thailand's rice production of 36.673 million tons (equivalent to 20.5 million tons of rice), exports of 10.969 million tons, export value of 5.38 billion U.S. dollars, the international market share of 25.4%, ranked first in the world.
2, rubber? The world's largest rubber producer and exporter, with an annual output of about 4 million tons of rubber, accounting for one-third of the world's total rubber output. The vast majority of rubber produced for export, annual exports accounted for 40-45% of the total global rubber exports. Rubber is cultivated in 52 of the country's 77 provinces, with about 1.5 million farming households engaged in rubber production.
The planted area in 2014 was around 2.893 million hectares, accounting for about 5.6 percent of its total land area, ranking second in the world after Indonesia. The traditional rubber planting areas are mainly located in the south and central part of the country, and in recent years, it gradually started to expand planting in the north and northeast.In 2014, Thailand's total rubber production was 4.271 million tons, and exported 3.409 million tons, with an export value of 5.96 billion U.S. dollars.
3, cassava? The world's third largest producer of cassava (after Nigeria and Brazil) and the first largest exporter, 2014 national cassava planting a total area of 1.32 million hectares, the main producing areas in the northeast, north and east-central, of which the northeastern production accounted for more than half of the country's total output. There are 480,000 farming households engaged in cassava cultivation.
In 2014, cassava production was 31.24 million tons, and 6.8 million tons of fresh and dried cassava were exported, with an export value of 1.5 billion U.S. dollars. Cassava starch was exported 1.538 million tons, with an export value of 640 million U.S. dollars.
Second, industry: Thailand's manufacturing industry in 2014 was worth $155 billion, accounting for 42.0% of GDP. The main categories of manufacturing industry are: mining, textile, electronics, plastics, food processing, toys, automobile assembly, building materials, petrochemicals, etc. In 2014, Thailand's automobile production reached 2 million, among the world's top ten automobile producers.
Third, tourism: Thailand is rich in tourism resources, there are more than 500 attractions, the main tourist attractions: Bangkok, Phuket, Pattaya, Chiang Mai, Hua Hin, Koh Samui and so on. According to the Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT), in 2014, there were 24.78 million foreign tourists visiting Thailand, up -6.7% year-on-year. Among them, 4.62 million Chinese tourists entered Thailand, up -0.29% year-on-year. According to the World Tourism Organization, tourism and its driven related industries account for nearly one-fifth of Thailand's GDP.
Baidu Encyclopedia-Thailand
Economic and Commercial Counselor's Office of the Embassy of the People's Republic of China in the Kingdom of Thailand - Thailand's Economic Profile (2015 Edition)