This series of reports examines rice production trends in Myanmar, focusing on paddy productivity and profitability. Rice is the country’s most important staple food, accounting for 51 percent of calories consumed in urban areas and 62 percent in rural areas. It is also a key livelihood source for many farmers, making it central to both food security and rural incomes.
Latest Findings from the 2024 Dry Season
- Prices of inputs used in paddy production – labor and mechanization – increased significantly between these two growing seasons by between 36-38 and 59 percent respectively, on average. On the other hand, urea prices declined by 1 percent. Paddy prices at the farm increased by 14 percent.
- Nominal profits for paddy rice farmers increased over the last two seasons. At the same time, price inflation has been high in the country. Therefore, real profits from paddy rice farming, which are nominal prices corrected by the change in the cost of an average food basket, decreased by 15 percent during the dry season of 2024 compared to the dry season of 2023. However, real profits were still higher than two and three years ago.
- Rice productivity at the national level during the dry season of 2024 on farmers’ largest rice plot was slightly higher (+6.9 percent) than in the previous dry season.
- Six percent of the rice farmers reported to have been affected by flooding during the dry season, even before cyclone Yagi affected many farmers in the beginning of September 2024.
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2023 Monsoon Season |
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2023 Dry Season |
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2022 Dry Season |