date:May 28, 2012
ed fruit and vegetables, and 6-10% for bread.
The institute also said that using machinery to replace workers is not a viable alternative as sectors like seafood and processed fruit and vegetables require human labour for separation and trimming processes.
NFI data shows that Thailands labour-intensive sectors include 320 chicken-processing factories, 579 fishery factories and 640 fruit and vegetable factories. They employ a total of 120,000 workers.