Proceedings of 8th Asian Business Research Conference
1 - 2 April 2013, Bangkok, Thailand, ISBN: 978-1-922069-20-7
Economic Analysis to Support Trade in Livestock and
Prevention of Spread of Foot and Mouth Disease
Nonprabha Buranawut
The problem of animal foot mouth disease hoof can lead to trade barriers
in importing country of livestock products. Thailand is a country with great
potential in export of cattle and pigs in Southeast Asia. Therefore, the
solution is to find a balance between the investment return is required to
be analyzed to achieve value for the overall economy of the country. The
testing results of relationship between the amount of import - export cattle
with the outbreak of foot-mouth disease found that the two are related in
the long run but still there are other factors involved. The analysis of the
potential for export of livestock found that, Thailand has an exporting
potential of livestock, so that making conventional disease control is
necessary to ensure that Thailand still has an important export country in
livestock products in the future.
Broad Track: Economics
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Nonprabha Buranawut, Chiang Mai University, Thailand. Email: nab.brk@gmail.com