Thirty years after the push for intensified agriculture in Thailand and 10 years after agro-industry being the major thrust in agricultural development, the benefits fall only to a small portion of the population. Rising costs and increasing amounts of inputs, continuous erosion of the environment, lack of control over farming and market choices and the unpredictability of market prices place farmers in a never ending price-debt squeeze. Over 500,000 farmers are now landless. In some regions, up to 85% of farm households earn too little to survive. Agricultural development policy has followed international recommendations in support of a growing agro-industry, accepting agricultural crops as a commodity rather than as necessary food resources for the domestic population - See more at: http://www.agriculturesnetwork.org/magazines/global/strong-case-for-diversity/agriculture-or-agribusiness-thai-farmers-search#sthash.2KfVM3mj.dpuf