THAILANDSICThailand Standard Industrial Classification

TSIC Activity

01461

Raising of layer chicken

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What this activity covers

This activity involves raising and breeding laying hens, along with producing fresh eggs.

  • Laying hen breeding — Breeding of laying hens
  • Hatchery operations — Operations for hatching eggs
  • Egg production — Production of fresh eggs
  • Poultry farming — General farming of chickens for eggs
  • Livestock operations — Broader livestock farming activities

What companies here also do

Seen in real company registrations under this code — beyond the official definition, so licensing may differ.

  • Sales of poultry products — Selling eggs and related products
  • Chicken farming — General chicken farming activities

Not included here

  • Raising, breeding and crossbreeding turkeys, fighting cocks, guinea fowls/bantam chickens. See activity 01469.

Foreign ownership

List 1: Closed to foreign majorityinherited from 014

Raising of animals

FBA B.E. 2542, List 1 (3)

Auto-mapped, verify against the Act. These TSIC mappings are indicative, not legal advice; the schedules of the Foreign Business Act B.E. 2542 are the authority. See the full foreign ownership reference.

Industry at a glance

as of 23 ก.ค. 69

The whole registered industry under this activity, every registration year, from the DBD DataWarehouse.

320
active companies operate here
฿8.6Bregistered capital, combined
฿32.0B
Sector revenue · 2025
+10% since 2023
฿367.0M
Net profit · 2025
185 profitable
202320242025

net profitrevenue

Foreign investment

new registrations · 2026 YTD
10%of new registered capital is foreign-held
฿2.0M foreign฿17.5M Thai

Foreigners are actively investing in this activity.

1 of the 5 largest companies here are foreign-owned Thailand subsidiaries.

New in 2026

15-40.0%

registrations, YTD

Registered capital

฿8.6B+8.2%

since year-end

Largest by revenue

Latest filed-year revenue, not a multi-year total

  1. 1Kasemchai Food Co., Ltd.฿3.4B
  2. 2Sangthong Sahafarm Co., Ltd.฿3.4B
  3. 3Kings Eggs (Thailand) Co., Ltd.intl฿987.6M
  4. 4Mae Tha Thong Farm Co., Ltd.฿965.0M
  5. 5Si Tam Lueng Thong Co., Ltd.฿740.2M

Largest by registered capital

  1. 1Ching Thong Co., Ltd.Chon Buri฿929.0M
  2. 2Sangthong Sahafarm Co., Ltd.Nakhon Nayok฿800.0M
  3. 3Chai Porn Farm and Feed (2007) Co., Ltd.Suphan Buri฿588.9M

Source: Department of Business Development DataWarehouse. Financial figures are combined totals of companies that filed statements; revenue and profit shown for the latest three reporting years.

Companies registered since 2022

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New DBD registrations under this activity since 2022, the period the registry snapshot covers, not the full historical register.

100
Registered
since 2022
89
Still active
11
Dissolved
฿1.0M
Median capital
of active

New registrations per year

2022peak 28 in 20222026

Largest active companies by registered capital

Source: Department of Business Development (DBD) new-registration records, 2022 to present. Counts cover companies first registered in that window, reflect the latest snapshot load, and may lag the live register.

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