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Press Release

March 18, 2020

DOA, DOP and JICA is to see Horticultural Crop Value Chain Project in mid-2020 in the Northern Yangon Region and Southern Shan State

[Nay Pyi Taw, 18 March 2020, (Wednesday)] Department of Agriculture (DOA) and Department of Planning (DOP), Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Irrigation (MOALI), and JICA Myanmar Office have officially agreed to start the new project on Horticultural Crop Value Chain.

"The Project for Strengthening Horticultural Crop Value Chain Through Food Safety Approach" (hereinafter, "the new Project") targets Hmawbi, Yangon Region and Kalaw, Shan State, and will be launched in July, 2020.

The new project will be implemented to boost shifting from "quantity-based agriculture" to "quality basis (or in other words "market-oriented") agriculture", and to improve the income of small-scale farmers, who represent a large percentage of crop producers in the nation. Since the market of agricultural products has been driven by yields for a long time in Myanmar, only the large-scale farmers who are able to produce bigger amount could gain better earning, but the small-scale farmers could not.

The Project aims to uplift the income level of the subsistence farmers by improving earnings per unit area with producing better quality horticultural crops, namely vegetables. When it comes quality vegetables, the Project not only try to produce good appearance products, but safe ones that give no harm to consumers; in addition to improve the farming skills of the producers, the project undertakes to control overuse/misuse of pesticide and post-harvest chemicals both at the administration and field levels.

The Project deals with not only the government officials and farmers, but all other stakeholders in value chain, such as agri-input (seeds, fertilizer, etc.) sellers, traders, distributors, processors, retailers, and consumers to add values of the products to ensure the better trades. The Project is going to build up a good model of horticultural crop value chain through its activities in the target areas, and brings the model nationwide to make Myanmar agriculture stronger and profitable.

JICA will keep being committed to development of the agricultural sector, which is the most important and main industry for the economy growth of Myanmar.


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