Thailand’s food and agricultural industries not only generate several billion baht a year in economic value, but also have been an important part of the Thai way of life which still focuses on agriculture. However, even though Thailand is a major exporter of agricultural and food products, the country’s competitive capability has been declining due to several factors such as the fact that raw material exports outweigh those of value-added processed products; the limited use of new technologies in plant and animal breeding; climate change and pest epidemics and stricter trade measures, etc.