The Thai government announced a policy of poverty eradication and set up the One
Tambon One Product Project based on Dr. Morihiko Hiramatsu’s One Village One Product
(OVOP) role model movement in Oita prefecture in Japan. The philosophy of this project was
to help each community in Thailand to use its local wisdom to develop and manufacture useful
products from locally-available raw materials with the help of modern know-how, technology,
innovation, and strategic management and administration for commercial purposes.