One effective approach is development of special market niches for products for which a country has comparative and competitive advantage. Examples are herbal medicine, dipped latex, vegetable fractionated silk, jute and processed wood and furniture industries. Another possibility is cultivating non-traditional markets like the USSR, Central and Eastern European countries. Intra-regional cooperation between developing countries of the Region is another possibility which deserves to be further explored. Organizational support Organization of agro-industries varies between and within countries.
Enterprises have different levels of sophistication and scales of operation.
A skilled workforce is a prerequisite for successful agro-industrialization. In Asia and the Pacific there are wide differences in investment in education and training. Japan leads with high rates of enrollment in tertiary education, followed by the Republic of Korea and Singapore. Unlike other regions, however, vocational education, as a percentage of all education, has declined, imposing a limiting factor on agro-industrial development. Renewing emphasis on vocational education would help provide a workforce capable of developing and using relevant local and overseas technologies for production of quality goods.