Myanmar: As Labourers Leave Myanmar Delta, Farmers Struggle to Mechanise

Nov 29, 2016 | Myanmar Now
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Most farmers in Ayeyarwady Region, the country’s ‘rice bowl’ and home to some 10 million people, lack enough land and capital to afford use of mechanical harvesters, while their uneven plots are often difficult to access with the machines. The lack of mechanised farming has become a pressing problem, many farmers and officials here said, as manual labour is in short supply in the delta region, where farming remains labour intensive.