MYANMAR Agribusiness Public Corporation (MAPCO) shipped 7,302 tonnes of rice to five foreign countries in the first quarter of the current financial year 2025- 2026, beginning 1 April, generating an income of US$2.4 million.
Exports were delivered to China (3,976 tonnes), Indonesia (2,080 tonnes), Mozambique (780 tonnes), the Czech Republic (416 tonnes) and Estonia (50 tonnes).
MAPCO has completed a small-scale oil mill with cooking oil (peanut, sesame oil and sunflower oil) production capacity of 100 viss per hour, which is an initial trial of the rice bran oil being developed in Nay Pyi Taw, aiming for oil production capacity of 200 tonnes per day. At present, sunflower oil produced by that oil mill is distributed in the market, labelled by the Hnitthak brand.
MAPCO, under the guidance of MRF, has prepared that project since 2014. Myanmar Rice Bran Oil Co Ltd (MRBO) was set up to operate a rice bran oil project in Mezaligon village-tract, Pyinmana Township, Nay Pyi Taw.
MRBO is constructing a crude rice bran oil factory (200 tonnes) and a refined oil factory (50 tonnes). Crude oil extracted from this will be reused in refined oil production factories. Defatted bran, a by-product of the crude bran oil production, will be supplied to feed processing factories as a valuable raw material.
Quality bran oil, sunflower oil, and soybean oil produced from the refinery will be distributed in the market, contributing to domestic consumption needs. Upon the government’s approval, they will be placed in the international markets as well.
MRBO received company registration from the Directorate of Investment and Company Administration (DICA) on 9 March 2022, an import licence on 1 June 2023 and a permit from the Myanmar Investment Commission 261/2024 according to a decision of the MIC meeting dated 5 January 2024. Value-added rice bran oil will be produced with the by-product of the surrounding rice mills and parboiled rice mills owned by MAPCO. Under the guidance of MRF, MRBO held the groundbreaking ceremony of the construction project at the MAPCO rice mill complex located in Pyinmana Township, Nay Pyi Taw, on 7 February. That plant is aimed at producing 9,000 tonnes of crude bran oil and 6,300 tonnes of cooking oil per year. It will become the first ever refinery for cooking oil. The federation will accelerate rice bran oil and cooking oil production plans. — NN/KK
