Myanmar Prepares To Host 36th Asean Ministerial Meeting On Agriculture

YANGON, Jan 10 (Bernama) -- Myanmar is preparing to host the 36th Asean Ministerial Meeting on Agriculture and Forestry and other related meetings in Nay Pyi Taw in September this year, Xinhua news agency reports official media as saying.

Agricultural produce, forest and livestock farming products from Myanmar will be exhibited at the meetings as part of efforts to solicit foreign markets for the country's exports, the New Light of Myanmar said.

Myanmar took over the chairmanship of the ministerial meeting on agriculture and forestry and various related meetings from Malaysia.

Farmers constitute 70 percent of the population in Myanmar whose economy has been reliant on agriculture since independence in 1948.

source: Bernama

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