Myanmar’s rapid agricultural mechanization: Demand and supply evidence

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dc.creatorWin, Myat Thida
dc.creatorBelton, Ben
dc.creatorZhang, Xiaobo
dc.date2020-11-01
dc.date2024-05-22T12:11:15Z
dc.date2024-05-22T12:11:15Z
dc.date.accessioned2026-06-27T15:27:31Z
dc.descriptionThis chapter analyzes recent patterns of agricultural mechanization in Myanmar from the demand side (farms) and the supply side (machinery dealerships). On the demand side, we analyze the historical and current use of machinery in agriculture, based on a survey of rural households conducted in 2016 in the Ayeyarwady delta close to Myanmar’s largest city, Yangon. On the supply side, we draw evidence from a survey of agricultural machinery supply businesses. Myanmar’s agriculture sector has encountered labor shortages and rising wages since 2011 as workers have begun to move to urban industrial and service sectors. Farmers have responded by rapidly substituting machinery for manual labor. In surveyed areas of Ayeyarwady, draft animals used for land preparation have almost disappeared. Of paddy-farming households, 94 percent used machines for land preparation, and only 12 percent still used draft animals. Widespread mechanization of harvesting has also occurred. Half of all sampled paddy-
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dc.identifierhttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/142891
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/104994
dc.languageen
dc.publisherInternational Food Policy Research Institute
dc.relationhttps://doi.org/10.2499/9780896293809
dc.relationhttps://doi.org/10.2499/9780896293823
dc.rightsOpen Access
dc.sourceWin, Myat Thida; Belton, Ben; and Zhang, Xiaobo. 2020. Myanmar’s rapid agricultural mechanization: Demand and supply evidence. In An evolving paradigm of agricultural mechanization development: How much can Africa learn from Asia?, eds. Xinshen Diao, Hiroyuki Takeshima, and Xiaobo Zhang. Part Three: Late-Adopter Asian Countries, Chapter 8, Pp. 263-284. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). https://doi.org/10.2499/9780896293809_08.
dc.subjectsupply balance
dc.subjectpolicies
dc.subjectsurveys
dc.subjectequipment
dc.subjecttechnology
dc.subjecthouseholds
dc.subjectfarmers
dc.subjectdemand
dc.subjectagriculture
dc.subjectagricultural mechanization
dc.subjectmechanization
dc.subjectrural areas
dc.subjectgovernance
dc.titleMyanmar’s rapid agricultural mechanization: Demand and supply evidence
dc.typeBook Chapter

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