Update: Livestock and fishery sectors, Myanmar
In order to complement Myanmar’s Economic Relief Plan and to support the policy interventions of the Ministry of Agriculture Livestock and Irrigation (MoALI), the International Food Policy Research Institute in collaboration with FAO, USAID, WorldFish, the Michigan State University and Greenovator Company Ltd. organized a virtual policy seminar based on the recent assessment ‘Covid-19’s impacts on Myanmar’s livestock and fishery sectors’.
The seminar took place on 26 August 2020 and covered four major sub-sectors 1) poultry and egg value chains 2) fish value chains 3) fishing and aquaculture communities 4) nutrition especially from the animal sourced food. Presentation of the key findings from the sub-sectors impacted by the pandemic clearly highlights the fact that livestock and fishery sectors should be regarded as essential both for the immediate and further market infrastructure investment. For the recap of the policy seminar see the link.
A number of interventions has already been taken by the MoALI, so far the Fishery Department provided fish for 1800 hectares of fish farms in 11 Regions and States, worth in value K180 million. In addition, MoALI’s plan is to stock over 60,000 hectares of fish ponds across the country, value worth K6 billion by the end of September, 2020. The Directorate of Investment and Company Administration (DICA) recently announced four foreign investments projects and one domestic business including the expansion of the existing joint ventures in livestock, fishery sectors.
Follow the news article links for more information:
Myanmar govt aids 1800 hectares of fish farms (Source: Myanmar Time)
Livestock, fisheries attract 5 investment projects this FY (Source: Global New Light of Myanmar)