Lacquerware producers in ancient city Bagan said that they are relying only on domestic visitors for their products although tourists are visiting the UNESCO Heritage Site of Myanmar.
Myanmar’s exports of natural gas over the past two months of the current financial year amounted to US$579 million, an increase of about $150 million compared with the corresponding period of the 2018-2019 fiscal, according to the Commerce Ministry.
Mandalay beans and pluses market has seen an upturned price of Mung bean, with increasing K15,000 per three-basket bag, after news has spread about the possible purchase of 0.25 million tons of this crop from India.
Border trade between Myanmar and Bangladesh reached US$9.88 million, as of 13 December in the fiscal year 2019-20, according to a report from Myanmar’s Ministry of Commerce.
Myanmar earned nearly US$200 million from export of 690,000 tons of rice and broken rice in two months (from 1 October to 6 December) of this fiscal year, said an official from the Ministry of Commerce.
Myanmar exported rubber worth US$40 million over the last two months of the current financial year, a sharp drop of $5 million compared with the corresponding period of the previous fiscal, according to the Ministry of Commerce.
