TSIC Activity

46101

Wholesale on a fee or contract basis of agricultural raw materials and live animals

ประกอบกิจการปลูกพืชเกษตรเพื่อจำหน่าย เช่น มะเขือเทศ ผักเคล มันเทศ มันญี่ปุ่น เป็นต้น

What this activity covers

Companies engage in wholesale trading of agricultural raw materials and live animals for compensation or under contract.

  • Wholesale of grains — Trading of grains and oil plants
  • Wholesale of live animals — Trading of livestock and other live animals
  • Wholesale of agricultural products — Trading of various agricultural raw materials
  • Wholesale of tanned leather — Trading of processed animal hides
  • Wholesale of animal feed — Trading of feed for farm animals
  • Auctioning agricultural products — Methods of auctioning raw materials and live animals

What companies here also do

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

  • Import/export of herbs — Trading various types of herbs
  • Import/export of vegetables — Trading various types of vegetables
  • Agent for agricultural sales — Acting as an intermediary for sales
  • Wholesale of fruits — Trading various types of fruits

Not included here

  • Selling pet food for compensation or under contract. See activity 46102.
  • Wholesale of textile fibers on a fee or contract basis, see activity 46108

Foreign ownership

List 3: Restricted, FBL/BOI route availableinherited from 461

Brokerage or agency business, except securities brokerage and agricultural futures trading, brokerage for the purchase and sale of goods or services necessary for production or services amongst affiliated enterprises, brokerage for international trading of domestically manufactured or imported goods, and other categories prescribed in ministerial regulations

The international-trading carve-out is subject to a minimum capital requirement, subject to capital thresholds, verify current figures.

FBA B.E. 2542, List 3 (11)Routes: Foreign Business Licence, BOI promotion, US Treaty of Amity
List 3: Restricted, FBL/BOI route availableinherited from 46

Wholesale of goods of all kinds, where the minimum capital per store is below the level prescribed in the Act

Not a hard restriction — only applies while under-capitalised. A foreign-majority wholesaler is exempt from this List 3 item (no Foreign Business Licence needed) once minimum registered capital reaches the Act's threshold, typically THB 100 million per store. Verify current ministerial-regulation figures.

FBA B.E. 2542, List 3 (15)Routes: Foreign Business Licence, BOI promotion, US Treaty of Amity

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.

1,517
active companies operate here
฿8.6Bregistered capital, combined
฿62.6B
Sector revenue · 2025
+19% since 2023
฿670.6M
Net profit · 2025
420 profitable
202320242025

net profitrevenue

Foreign investment

new registrations · 2026 YTD
8%of new registered capital is foreign-held
฿25.2M foreign฿272.0M Thai

Largely domestic, with some foreign investment.

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

New in 2026

204+140.0%

registrations, YTD

Registered capital

฿8.6B+6.8%

since year-end

Largest by revenue

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

  1. 1ADM (Thailand) Co., Ltd.intl฿7.1B
  2. 2Rai Thanya Co., Ltd.฿6.2B
  3. 3Tapioca International Corporation Co., Ltd.฿5.8B
  4. 4Rice Bran Thailand Co., Ltd.฿2.5B
  5. 5XIN JIAO GLOBAL CO., LTD.฿2.4B

Largest by registered capital

  1. 1Thai Platinum International Airline Co., Ltd.Nonthaburi฿1.0B
  2. 2G.K. Smart Farming Co., Ltd.Bangkok฿505.0M
  3. 3Sapphathaporn Co., Ltd.Bangkok฿400.0M

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.

888
Registered
since 2022
796
Still active
92
Dissolved
฿1.0M
Median capital
of active

New registrations per year

2022peak 264 in 20222026

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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