ISSN: 2689-7822
Authors: Jamsawat V*
Thailand is an agricultural country. Livestock production plays an important role both in supplying meat, milk, and eggs for domestic consumption and for export. Livestock are used for multiple purposes such as draught power, a means of transportation, capital, credit, meat, milk, social value, by-product uses. Diversity of livestock in terms of species, distribution, roles, etc., can be widely found and is integrated into the prevailing production systems throughout the country. In general, two groups of animals have been raised, ruminants; beef cattle, dairy cattle, swamp buffaloes, sheep and goats and non-ruminants: swine and poultry. The status of animal production are dependent on the two part of producer farmer. There are small holder farmer and private sector companies. The all of ruminant farm such as dairy cattle, beef cattle, buffalo, sheep and goat farm are small holder farmer and the most of non-ruminant farm such as swine and poultry are the large companies.
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