Movement system and trade channels of Thai native beef response to AEC expansion

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This study aims to explore the situations of Thai native beef movement and trade channels to the AEC countries. In order to achieve the aim of this study, two major objectives were intensively studied: i) to explore the general situations of the Thai native beef trade and the capacity in crossed-border trade, and ii) to identify the potential factors influencing to the decision making in Thai native beef movement to AEC countries. This study em-ployed statistical approaches to examine the tendency of collected data including used the logistic regression analysis to determine the relationships of influential factors discovered in this study. For the general situations of the Thai native beef trade, it was found that there are several barriers to limit the Thai native beef trade response to the AEC expansion, in particular the circumstances of the Thai native beef movement and trade channels to AEC countries. The influential factors were also evaluated to express the relationships between driving factors and their impacts. The results of these procedures lead to some guidelines essentially proposed to the government or authorized orga-nizations to assist those small holder farmers and traders for the feasibility in crossed-border trade to AEC countries. Regarding the results of the study, it is anticipated that the proposed guidelines might spur the development of the movement system and trade channels to accommodate the AEC expansion and thereby deliver economic benefits to the livestock sector, particularly the Thai native beef traders, in Thailand and ASEAN countries.