The Rakhine State commerce minister is hoping around 10,000 tonnes of black gram beans will be exported to India from Sittwe this year, pending completion of the Kaladan Multi-Model Transit Transport Project. The Kaladan project will connect Mizoram in India to Sittwe, the capital of Rakhine State, via the Kaladan River. The project was […]
Rakhine Farmers Caught Between Falling Prices and Rising Labour Costs
December 19, 2016 by
Farmers associations in Rakhine State – one of the biggest rice producing regions in Myanmar – are calling for government aid amid falling prices, closing markets and a shrinking labour pool. But the state government says it does not have the funds or the expertise to help solve what it says is a nationwide […]