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โครงการหนังสืออิเล็กทรอนิกส์ด้านการเกษตร เฉลิมพระเกียรติพระบาทสมเด็จพระเจ้าอยู่หัว

has a significant effect on increasing supply of products to the market. As a result, increasing

the productivity in some sectors will adversely affect income, poverty and income distribution
of farmers. This is because an increase in production makes price decrease more than the

increased demand especially in the sectors that produce goods that have low elasticity of

demand such as crops, sugarcane, rubber, other agricultural products, etc. Consequently,
farmers’ income is decreased.

Adding value to products is a policy that has a positive effect on the agricultural
sectors, but it may negatively affect the overall economic growth and result in higher inflation.

Therefore, policies related to adding value to products that do not truly increase the utility of
the product to consumers, will have a negative effect on the overall economy rather than a

positive effect, because it directly affects the price of goods and consumers and only farmers

will receive benefits from this policy. However, the better way to increase profit margins to
farmers can be achieved through the support of some disadvantaged farmers.

Policies related to the adjustment of household consumption patterns, especially in
the case of turning to consume more agricultural products; the consumption intervention to

encourage consumers to consume one particular product may improve the overall economy,
but can reduce social welfare. This is because it will increase the price of such product, but

the incomes of consumers will not change significantly. In the case of turning to consume

more agricultural products produced domestically, the impact is low or almost unchanged
because some products rely on imports more than domestic production.

The policies related to enhancing the efficiency of transportation and distribution of
agricultural goods can effectively reduce poverty and income inequality while also have

positive impact to all development goals. They also boost the economy as a whole, decrease

the inflation rate and labors and farmers earn more income. Increasing the efficiency in such
a way will be beneficial to both producers and consumers and can be counted as Pareto

Improvement policy which is the policy that helps some groups of people without negatively
affect other groups of people. Therefore, this is the policy that should be pushed forward and

pursued first.

Foreign affairs related policies about exporting expansion as well as the policies related

to enhancing the efficiency of transportation and distribution of goods are found to generate

positive impact to all development goals. Whereas, the policy about reducing barriers to

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