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How to say the agricultural sector
in Thai
ภาคเกษตร
pâak-gà-sèet
the agricultural sector
pâak fallinggà lowsèet low
News and economics word. Farming still employs roughly a third of Thai workers but makes a much smaller share of GDP.
- Part of speech
- noun
- Register
- formal
In a sentence
- แรงงานภาคเกษตรraaeng-ngaan pâak-gà-sèetfarm labour
From the same situation: Agriculture and rural life
- เกษตรกรfarmer (general)
- การเกษตรagriculture, farming
- ชาวสวนorchard or plantation grower
- ชาวไร่field-crop farmer
- ไร่rai (1,600 m²); upland field
- ตารางวาsquare wa (4 m²)
- แปลงplot, bed (of land)
- ทุ่งนาopen rice fields, paddy land
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