Myanmar plans to export up to 4 million tons of rice annually by 2025 to meet demands from China, Europe, and other Southeast Asian countries. The country expects to earn an estimated USD 1.5 billion from future rice exports.
Myanmar will focus on higher-quality varieties, according to the president of the nation’s rice federation.
However, the country’s agri-food sector faces significant challenges such as the rising cost of fertilizer and increasingly unavailable or expensive high-quality seeds.
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“Laser land leveling is not a new technology in Myanmar having been first used in 1996,” said U Ko Ko Maung, deputy director general of the Agricultural Mechanization Department (AMD). “However, most farmers still rely on manual leveling methods. Adopting the laser land leveling technology can help reduce the high rice production costs and labor intensity associated with manual leveling.”
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