在整个殖民地时期,农业一直是东南亚地区的主要经济部门,农产品占国民收入的大部分,同时也是出口的价值结构与商品结构的最重要组成部分。 大多数居民从事农业,以及林业与渔业。例如,一九三一年,农业部门占印尼经济自立人口的百分之六十八点二,在缅甸,农业人口占百分之六十九点六。战前时期,泰国全国百分之九十以上的居民与农业有联系(四十年代后半期,全国百分之八十五点六 Throughout the colonial period, agriculture had been the main economic sector in Southeast Asia, with agricultural products accounting for the lion’s share of national income and the most important component of the value structure and commodity structure of exports. Most residents are engaged in agriculture, as well as in forestry and fisheries. For example, in 1931, the agricultural sector accounted for 68.2% of Indonesia’s economically independent population, and in Myanmar, the agricultural population accounted for 69.6%. During the pre-war period, more than 90% of the inhabitants of Thailand were linked to agriculture (in the latter half of the 1940s, the entire country was 85.6%