Thai animal feed market flexible within a strait-jacket

摘要

Being self-sufficient in food production is a long term goal for many Asian countries. In Thailand this longstanding policy has not been particularly successful when considered in terms of the long term trends in imports. Imports have increased in theface of an ongoing battle between an expansionist private sector with a profit motive and protectionist bureaucrats who do not have a sound understanding of the needs and requirements of the commercial world. This clash in opinion hampers the government's policy of developing Thailand into Asia Pacific's centre for the animal feed industry.