Food-based products from neighbouring countries are entering our domestic market, despite the abundance of rice, beans, corn, edible oil crops, vegetables, and fruits in Myanmar. Why? One reason is that although we are a food producer nation, we are weak in manufacturing finished food products.
The Union Government has been striving to provide electric supply to the whole country. Before the end of this year, electricity is expected to reach more than 50 percent of the country.
The dramatic increase in the production and seizure of drugs in Myanmar is evidence that drug abuse has become the epidemic of our time. But, concerted efforts on the part of the authorities give us reason to hope that the problem of drugs will be eliminated in the future.
The incumbent government has organized nine children’s literary festivals at the state level and 48 at the region and state level in three years, and the festivals reflect its efforts towards promoting children’s and youth literature.
