Myanmar exported 1.3 million
tons of rice in this fiscal year and 80 percent of them were destined
for China, according to Dr. Soe Tun, Chairperson of Myanmar Farmers
Association.
China paid about 12 percent higher than current price, he said.
Myanmar rice and rice products export in
this fiscal year is the biggest in 46 years, Win Myint, Minister for
Commerce said on March 2.
“This year export hit the record in 46
year time. But Ematha (25 percent broken) and other low quality rice are
among our export. That’s why our earning is low although the quantity
is much more than previous years. We are trying to grow good quality
species of rice and construct modernized warehouses and rice mills,” the
minister said during the Myanmar Rice Mill and Machinery for
Value-added Agricultural Produces Exhibition 2013.
Myanmar could export 1.5 million tons of
rice in this fiscal year which will end this month. Although Myanmar
has exported over 1 million tons of rice a year before 1956 and the
export volume has decreased since that year. This year export is the
highest record, according to the statistics.
“Now we have exported 800,000 tons of
rice to China. It is nearly 80 percent of all the rice export. The
Chinese are also buying paddy, and the [farmer] association expects
continued paddy trade with them. Farmers will obtain good price after
summer’s paddy cultivation [in June],” Dr. Soe Tun commented.
source: Eleven Myanmar
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