Monitoring the impact of COVID-19 in Myanmar: Mechanization service providers - May 2020 survey round

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dc.creatorTakeshima, Hiroyuki
dc.creatorWin, Myat Thida
dc.creatorMasias, Ian
dc.date2020-04-01
dc.date2024-05-22T12:17:08Z
dc.date2024-05-22T12:17:08Z
dc.date.accessioned2026-06-27T15:30:55Z
dc.descriptionAgricultural mechanization service providers (MSP) are crucial to enabling smallholder farmers to undertake a range of power-intensive farm and post-harvest operations in a timely manner. These operations are important for food production and farm income. MSPs are capital-intensive operations. The economic viability of these businesses is highly sensitive to capacity utilization, which generates the cash flow needed to repay equipment loans; to prices of imported capital goods, including machines, equipment, and fuels; and to the availability of machine operators, among others. Hence, the operations of MSPs are sensitive to restrictions on mobility and trade. The COVID-19 pandemic in Myanmar, the restrictions imposed as policy responses to control the spread of the virus, and the associated market disruptions affect the operations of MSPs across the country. However, the specific impacts MSPs experience depends on factors specific to different regions and states. Measures to support MSPs and to ensure farmer access to their services should be guided by an understanding of the situation on the ground.
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dc.identifierhttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/143816
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/106618
dc.languageen
dc.languagemy
dc.publisherInternational Food Policy Research Institute
dc.rightsOpen Access
dc.sourceTakeshima, Hiroyuki; Win, Myat Thida; and Masias, Ian. 2020. Monitoring the impact of COVID-19 in Myanmar: Mechanization service providers - May 2020 survey round. Myanmar SSP Policy Note 7. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). https://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.133754.
dc.subjectloans
dc.subjectcovid-19
dc.subjectfarmers
dc.subjectsmallholders
dc.subjectagricultural mechanization
dc.subjectmechanization
dc.titleMonitoring the impact of COVID-19 in Myanmar: Mechanization service providers - May 2020 survey round
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