A Nation of Stupa at a Crossroads: How are you, Myanmar?
One’s first impression after arriving Yangon would be the crowded traffic, and the unbelievable scene of both right-hand and left-hand drive vehicles zooming side by side in an usually right-hand traffic pattern…
Myanmar Profile - Overview
Myanmar area of 676,577 square kilometers, equivalent to 19 Taiwan, a population of about 60 million people, an annual growth of 1.9%. GDP per capita is only $ 715; 26% of the population lives in poverty, including 36 percent of the rural population living below the poverty line.Myanmar- The New Spotlight In the World
While the whole world has the great interests in Myanmar, News&Market who focuses on the agricultural issues expands the news report scope. Two reporters Yu-Jong Peng and Wen-Hao Wang went to Myanmar for a month and got the first-hand information for Taiwan audience with the funding support from Cheng Chen Foundation.
The Starving Peasants in the Kingdom of Rice
Myanmar Food Security Working Group (FSWG) Coordinator Chairman Dr. Ohmar Khaing criticized the current Myanmar paradoxical agricultural policy- “Myanmar is trying to be the largest rice export country in the world while nearly 40% of peasants are starving and live under poverty bottom line. Is it ironical?”…
The Myanma Dream of Taiwanese Farmers
For many Taiwanese in their 50s and 60s who grew up on farms, seeing rural villages in Myanmar brings back childhood memories — buffaloes in the fields; barefoot farmers planting seedlings; grain being harvested with sickles; paddy laid out to dry in the sun. Following the introduction of mechanized agriculture in Taiwan, these have long since become tourist attractions on “leisure farms.”…
Burmese Chinese find success in pig farming with Taiwanese training
“Everything you see on this pig farm has Taiwanese influences,” said Yen Lung-fang, a Burmese Chinese pig farmer. Knowing that we are reporters from Taiwan, Yen, who usually keeps to himself and does not allow visitors on his farm, gives us a very warm welcome…
Keep the Burmese Peasants Away From the Snake Attack
The Peasant’s Hospital is located at Samalauk village, 60 kilometers from the western suburb of Yangon city. This hospital has been donated by a Taiwanese enterprise Known-You Seed, Co., Ltd.. The medical team has cured more than 800 farmers bitten by venomous snakes, delivered many new-born babies and provided poor rural residents the free medical service and operation…
Inlay Lake：The worry behind the floating island
Inlay Lake is the most popular tourist attraction in Burma for the Western tourists. In terms of tourism, its reputation is like Sun-Moon Lake in Taiwan. However, the area of Inlay Lake is much bigger than Sun-Moon Lake. The floating-island cultivation area on Inlay Lake is the largest hydroponics farming zone in the world. The local people spread the sediment above the floating grass to develop the “floating” cultivation area to grow the tomato and the melon…
Myanmar Metta Development Foundation Helping thousands of poor farmers transition to organic farming
To tell the truth, it was because I was fortunate enough to have come here and interviewed “Metta,” the largest grassroot NGO in Myanmar, and the villages and villagers that had received assistance from Metta, that I had regained some hopes from Myanmar despite my pessimism regarding its rapid reform and opening and its wholehearted embracement of economic liberalization……
Interview with the FSWG
To better understand the agricultural conditions in Myanmar, News & Market interviewed Dr. Ohmar Khaing, Chief Coordinator of the Myanmar Food Security Working Group (FSWG), an organization devoted to integrating NGOs and minority groups…
The Taste of Myanmar
I glanced at the deep blue ocean outside of my small window from the airplane and saw the port city named Yangon afar. Instead of feeling anxious over the unknowns, I actually thought about the familiar smells near Huaxin Street in New Taipei City where I lived for the past three years…