Yunnan Business Survey For Lao Agricultural Investment Market

Agriculture is the important industry of Laos, it also has been one of the hot spot offoreign investment. Laos’agricultural resources is rich, humanities and social cultureis good, and the government in order to attract foreign investment has to develop aseries of preferential incentives. In recent years, the Laos’ economic has grow faster,annual economic growth rate remained more than7%. When Laos became themember of WTO in2013, will have more opportunities and wider space, as well asbring with new opportunities for YunNan Province.Laos’agricultural infrastructure is backward.Its agricultural mode of production is stillpriority to the traditional production technology, part of some mountain farmers arestill destroying forest, slash-and-burn agriculture original shape, productivity andefficiency is low, crop yield is low.Yunnan province, known as "kingdom of plants",in recent years,it gradually develop the rubber processing industry, tropical fruitsvegetables and coffee, tea, ecological emerging senior economic crops, such asbiological resources, formed the influence and competitiveness at domestic andabroad. Construction of the china-asean free trade area, Yunnan-Laos cooperationmechanism to carry out Yunnan agricultural "go out" to build a good platform forinvestment. Yunnan used their geographical advantages, and Laos in terms of culture,trade or road infrastructure projects all have long-term cooperative relations, has theadvantages of the regional advantages and cultural similarities, as a big agriculturalprovince of Yunnan, and has obvious complementarity of agricultural naturalresources and differences with Laos, to invest in Laos agricultural products hasgreater competitiveness, enterprises in Yunnan province should seize the opportunityfor development and investment in modern agriculture in Laos, can providetechnology and training for local farmers, it can effectively improve the local people’sincome, Yunnan enterprise is profitable as well, to achieve a win-win situation.This article uses the phone interview and on-the-spot investigation research method,interview the enterprises in Yunnan province invest the Laos’ agriculture by telephone, its scope of business and investment fields and so on has carried on the detailedunderstanding, and has carried on the on-the-spot investigation to some relatedenterprises, to know its investment model and developing problems or challenges.This study first analyzes the Laos agricultural investment market, and the specificform, from the enterprises’enterprise scale and investment type in Yunnan province isanalyzed in Laos’agricultural investment present situation, and carried on thediscussion for the existing investment model, found that the problems appeared in theprocess of investment in Laos agriculture in Yunnan. Compared with the otherdomestic and international research investors, analysis of the competitiveness of theenterprise investment in Laos agriculture in Yunnan, and points out that promoting theinternational competitiveness of enterprises to invest in Laos’agriculture in Yunnanand the added value of the effective ways and countermeasures of agriculturalproducts. Guide enterprises in Yunnan province to have an effective investment inLaos’agriculture, find the correspondency of both their respective advantages, miningthe potential field of agricultural investment, improve the influence of Yunnanagricultural investment in Laos, to speed up the pace of "going out" enterprises inYunnan province agriculture, intensify the investment in Laos’agriculture, and givethe other provinces to Laos for agricultural investment for reference.