In Pakistan, Jamil provides wheelchairs to get refugees with disabilities into the classroom and give them a shot at a future.

Under the cover of early morning darkness on April 27, authorities in Mon State affixed signs bearing the name General Aung San to the bridge and opened it to traffic, ending one chapter in a simmering dispute over ethnic rights in Myanmar (Burma). But even as authorities tried to put the controvers...

Myanmar will receive US$27 million in funds under the Global Agriculture and Food Security Programme (GAFSP) to kickstart a value chain financing project for agricultural businesses in the Dry Zone, said U Hla Kyaw, deputy minister of the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock, and Irrigation (MOALI).Th...

With the monsoon rain season in Myanmar, the Agricultural Development Bank has begun disbursing agricultural loans to rice farmers nationwide through its bank branches. Agricultural loans for cultivating rice in rain-fed fields are disbursed no later than September, and those farmers who have lan...

A Total budget of over K 3.134 trillion will be invested in the Myanmar Agricultural Development Strategy (ADS) in the coming five years, until 2023, according to the report of Ministry of Agricultural Livestock and Irrigation (MOALI). The strategy covers productivity, competitiveness and governa...

Agricultural service centres will be established in 33 sites in states and regions within four years, said an official from the Myanmar Rice Federation (MRF). The agricultural service centre will be set up with an aim to provide services to local farmers and to develop the farming sector and rice...

State Chief of Agriculture Department U Tin Tun said that the agriculture school which was closed for 16 years in Ngwe Taung in Dee Maw Soo Township will be reopened as Agriculture Science Institute. “We will receive 50 students for the first enrollment of the school. They will follow courses for...

The government has launched a project to bring water to every village in the country through a 24-hour supply system. Rural development department director general U Khant Zaw told the media on May 26 that the agriculture ministry was already spending K25-30 billion every year on water purification ...

The Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Irrigation will improve the country’s agriculture industry under its five-year development plan, Union Minister Dr Aung Thu said in his opening remarks at the recent meeting in Nay Pyi Taw. To reach the ministry’s goal to enhance the farming industry, th...

Surbung Airport in Falam Township, Chin State, the first major airport in the state, will open in September 2020, said U Ye Htut Aung, Deputy Director General of the Department of Civil Aviation. Construction of the K 30 billion airport, which began in 2016-17, had originally been scheduled for c...