A. Employment Structure

---At least 60% of the total population was employed in the agricultural sector in the years immediately following the end of Japanese rule.

B. Major Industries and Products; Key Technologies

1. Agriculture

Because the nation was in a state of disarray and the agricultural infrastructure had suffered damage from Allied bombing raids, the development of agricultural technology was a top priority in the days following the end of World War Two. Major objectives were as follows:

---Improving irrigation systems.

---Introducing highly-productive new varieties of rice.

---Improving fertilizer use and increasing the use of chemical fertilizer.

---Promoting crop rotation and intercropping in order to raise agricultural productivity.

---Applying technologies for preventing livestock and poultry diseases.

2. Industry

---Priority was given to generating electricity to meet the needs of industry, producing the fertilizer needed by agriculture, and developing a textile industry to make the clothing that people needed and spent large amounts of foreign exchange buying.

3. Primary export products: sugar, rice.

C. Major transportation projects

---Dredging harbors

---Repairing roads and railways