INDUSTRY SOUTHERN THAILAND

Southern Thailand main industry

is mainly centered on agriculture, that means rice, rubber, coconut, tropical crops, in the past tin, and fishing.

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Since about four decades now of course also the tourism industry, which brought in big money for the locals and naturally foreigners, the Thai call this white species "farang" which stands somehow for "the big white". This word farang (spoken.. falang..) you will always hear when locals talk about you and has no negative meaning, its just a normal expression.

Southern Thailand is also rich on certain minerals such as gold, wolfram and some others plus natural gas, but until now no major industries have been set up to process. Actually somehow it looks like (beside of tourism) the very southern part of Thailand where the people are mainly Muslim does not have the real developing steam behind like many other provinces, this can be seen as something negative but also has some positive effects.

Songkhla is a fishing port since ancient times and has recently become the center of the offshore gas business and exploration in the gulf of Thailand, all the big US companies are here, since they are the one who have the expertise, like Unocal, Halliburton etc. the hotels make good business with the professionals who are shuttled everyday from the local heliport to the offshore platforms. It looks like not much from the money created through this business find the way into the local environment.

In any case southern Thailand industries are for the long run investment.