Individual trades through land border exceed K18.3 bln in eight months

Jun 21,2021
Trade conducted by Individual Trading Card (ITC) holders reached over K18.3 billion through the land border in the past eight months of the current financial year 2020-2021, .............
Rubber prices likely to keep climbing in next two months
Jun 18
At present, Myanmar natural rubber fetched K870 per pound (0.45 kilograms) while the price of the ribbed smoked sheet (RSS) hit K880 per pound.
Falling lemon prices hit farmers’ profits
Jun 18
THE lemon farmers are caught between the rising lemon plan[1]tations and falling prices this year, said the lemon farmers from Singaing Township of Mandalay Region.
Sebesten business widely operated as traditional business
Jun 18
MYANMAR people may not have seen Sebesten (Cordia dichotoma), but few have ever seen its leaf because of a large number of people who smoke Sebesten cigarettes (cheroot-like smoking article consisting of tobacco rolled in a wrapper made from the leaf of Cordia dichotoma tree).
Lucrative ladies’ fingers attract farmers to grow all year round
Jun 17
The farmers from Wuntho and Kawlin townships, Sagaing Region grow the profitable ladies’ fingers (Okra) throughout the entire year as it allows them to have daily healthy income.
Tomato growers from Ywangan township expect higher price
Jun 17
This year, the local people are mainly growing tomato and expecting it to fetch a higher price.
Due to lack of irrigated paddy field, rain-fed paddy makes main crop in Myeik
Jun 17
Myeik paddy growers mainly cultivate rain-fed paddy in Taninthayi Region due to a lack of irrigated paddy fields where summer paddy are grown with irrigation from dams, ...............