Hnin Yu Lwin

Yezin Agricultural University · Department of International Relations

This study examined the importance of different determinants influencing farmer participation in the collective water management activities in the Pyawt Ywar pump irrigation project area of Myinmu Township in Myanmar. Stratified random sampling was used to collect data from the sample number of 208 irrigation beneficiaries. The level of farmers' pa...

This study investigated how access to irrigation contributed to crop income and livelihood improvement in the study area in Myanmar. The study was conducted in the Pyawt Ywar pump irrigation command area in Myinmu Township, and stratified random sampling was used to collect data from 285 households. These included 208 beneficiaries of irrigation an...

Financial inclusion has been one of the key agendas for poverty reduction in development practices since the mid-2000s. However, informal finance has clearly not been completely replaced by formal finance in the Global South. This study examines labor-tying credit, which is one type of informal finance, and based on a case study in the Delta region...

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This study was attempted to observe marketing activities of fertilizer market participants such as marketing channel, marketing cost and marketing margin in Tatkon Township. Totally 33 market intermediaries were interviewed in which 6 local wholesalers, 5 village retailers, 2 company agents and 20 farmers in 3 sample villages were included. Based o...

Myanmar is exporting primarily Indica rice, mainly of intermediate and low quality, to a few countries especially to low income markets. Moreover, the challenge facing Myanmar rice export was the high proportion of transportation costs, almost 57% of the total export processing cost because of insufficient port facilities. Compared to the price of...

This paper evaluates the rice marketing channels and the interaction of market participants in selected areas of Myanmar. The main rice marketing channels in the studied sites indicate that almost all products of farmers flow to collectors and millers. Lack of formal cooperative structures, farmers support groups and growing market power of millers...

This paper evaluates the rice marketing channels and the interaction of market participants in selected areas of Myanmar. The main rice marketing channels in the studied sites indicate the almost all products of farmers flow to collectors and millers. Lack of formal cooperative structures, farmers support groups and growing market power of millers...

This study analyzed the price integration for selected rice markets in Myanmar from April 2001 to May 2004. The purpose of this analysis was to understand market functioning for helping lawmakers further developing the rice market. In order to make a liberalization of the rice market there has to be certain specific market improvements in behaviors...