Economic Background for Investment in Thailand Until very lately, Thailand had a reputation for becoming primarily a country which relied heavily on commodity exports, it utilized to be the world’s largest rice exporter. However, this is no longer true, the agricultural exports utilised to represent far more than 40 percent of the country’s export in the mid-80s. Now its share of the total export has dropped to only around 20 percent. The pace of industrialization and the growing proportion of exports taken up by manufactured goods reflect the increasing volume of investment which is going into industrial development. Thailand has enjoyed consistent economic growth for a lot more than three decades whereby in the course of the ’60s and ’70s average annual growth exceeded 7 percent, an impressive rate by any standards. … Read entire article »

ABSTRACT SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE DEVELOPMENT AND ICT   D.AMUTHA M.A.M.PHIL ASST.PROFESSOR OF ECONOMICS ST. MARY’S COLLEGE (AUTONOMOUS) TUTICORIN. E-mail: amuthajoe@gmail.com                                           ICTs play a key role in improving the availability of agricultural production and market information in developing countries. ICT-based market information systems have a proven track record for improving rural livelihoods in middle income developing countries where they have been introduced. However, these systems are generally limited in scale and have not been effectively replicated beyond the local level. This paper attempts an analysis of the ICT play an important role in bringing about sustainable agricultural development and future perspectives in agriculture and ICT.   … Read entire article »