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  • Title of document: Myanmar’s Agriculture Sector: Unlocking the Potential for Inclusive Growth

    Authors: David A. Raitzer, Larry C.Y. Wong, and Jindra Nuella G. Samson in ADB Economics Working Paper series

    Ministry/Government Agency/Organisation: ADB

    Year of publication: 2015

    Geographic focus: Myanmar

    Url original document: https://openaccess.adb.org/bitstream/handle/11540/5300/EWP_470_MYA%20Agriculture_14Dec_WEB.pdf?sequence=1

    Summary:

    Myanmar’s agriculture sector offers substantial unexploited potential to underpin the country’s inclusive economic development. With extensive land, water, and labor resources, as well as proximity to fast-growing markets, the country’s agriculture has key competitive advantages. At the same time, Myanmar’s agricultural productivity trails its neighbors as a result of constraints in input markets, infrastructure, and institutions. Key actions to address these constraints include improving land tenure, expanding credit availability, investing in input markets for nutrients and machinery, developing drainage and irrigation systems, and enhancing rural transport and electricity connectivity. In the short-term, public-private partnership may help to address these barriers to investment, but increased public investment in innovation and attention to climate change effects as part of comprehensive long-term agricultural development planning.