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Research Projects

Industrialization of Rural Economies in Southeast Asia(2021_2_40_014)

Outline

In Southeast Asia, contract farming, in which agro-processing firms and suppliers of agricultural inputs (e.g., seeds and materials) offer improved inputs on credit and provide instructions for improved production methods, has been playing an increasingly important role in the modernization of rural economies. We hypothesize that, in order to facilitate such development in this region, the efficiency of both the agriculture and agro-processing industries or input-supply systems must be enhanced simultaneously. This can be termed the “industrialization of rural economies.” In this study, as a first step toward the fuller exploration of the reality of such industrialization, we propose to undertake case studies of the successful development of maize production in Laos PDR and in the poultry industry in Thailand.

Period

April 2021 - March 2023

Leader of the Research Project

Otsuka Keijiro

Publications

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