A worker carries bags of rice from a cargo boat at a jetty in Yangon, Myanmar, March 11, 2025. Myanmar's exports of rice and broken rice in the first 11 months of the 2024-25 fiscal year reached ...

Myanmar is a low-income country with a high poverty rate (37%). Rice, its main farm income source, generates livelihoods for over 50% of the population. People spend more than 60% of their income on ...

Four executives from supermarket chains in Myanmar, including a Japanese joint venture official, were arrested for selling rice at inflated prices, state media said on Monday, as the war-torn ...

Myanmar’s farms are well diversified, with most farms producing rice paddy during the monsoon season and other crops such as beans, pulses, oilseeds and maize, during the cool and dry seasons. The ...

YANGON, Feb. 11 (Xinhua) -- Myanmar earned over 1 billion U.S. dollars from rice and broken rice exports in the first ten months of the current fiscal year 2024-2025, starting April 2024 ...

YANGON (Xinhua): Myanmar has received 3,500 tons of rice provided by South Korea and China for disaster-hit communities for 2025 under the ASEAN Plus Three Emergency Rice Reserve (APTERR ...

Develop and spread high performance rice plant adaptable for rice farming in non-irrigated area Various styles of rice farming are operated in Myanmar, with non-irrigated rice farming depending on ...

TOKYO/YANGON (Reuters): A Myanmar court on Monday sentenced a Japanese executive from the local unit of supermarket chain operator Aeon Co to one year in prison for violating rice price controls ...