The paper analyses the importance of the livestock sector in the development of the Thailand economy. In promoting the livestock sector development, the controlling of livestock diseases plays crucial for ensuring the sustainability and viability of the sector. This paper demonstrates that use...

Increased demand for livestock products and the regime switch from import substitution to export orientated industrialisation has put pressure on the livestock sector in Thailand to expand production and exports. One of the constraints to expansion is the production and trade effects of diseases...