MT News
The agriculture sector makes up 23.7 percent of the gross domestic product and products of the agriculture and livestock breeding sector are important export items, the Vice Chairman of State Administration Council Vice-Senior General Soe Win said.
He made this comment at the meeting (1/2023) of the Peasant’s Rights Protection and Interests Promotion Leading Committee held in Nay Pyi Taw on 14 March.
First, the Vice-Senior General delivered a speech, saying that the purpose of the meeting is to implement the objectives of the Law for Protection of Peasants’ Rights and Promotion of Peasants’ Interests and provisions of its rules.
The government has offered Ks- 100.248 billion loans to farmers to grow monsoon and winter sunflower. In addition, for the welfare of the people and reduction of cotton imports, the four year special project to expand cultivation of 700,000 acres of cotton is being implemented and 458,388 acres of cotton have been grown until 28 February, 2023, the Vice-Senior General said.
Moreover, it is planned to spend the State economic development fund on 500,000 acres of Mung bean and 850,000 acres of summer paddy, he added.
It is to carry out tasks to ensure land ownership for livestock framings and transport animal and animal products locally and import and export them. For fishery development in rural regions, the fishery project of Emerald Green is being implemented in 394 villages with Ks 3 million each.
To ensure recovery of socioeconomic life the people and economy of the nation that was down due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Ks-10 billion each was provided for Kayah, Chin and Rakhine states, Ks-eight billion each for Kachin, Kayin, Mon and Shan states and Tanintharyi Region, and Ks-five billion each for six self-administered regions, Ks-100 billion in total.
Members of the leading committee union ministers, the chairman of the Nay Pyi Taw Council, the chairman of the Central Bank of Myanmar, deputy ministers, chairman of organization and officials attended while chief ministers and officials from the states and regions participated in the meeting through video conference.
