Burma Requests Farming Aid Before Rice-Planting Season. By Amy Kazmin. May 15, 2008 at 8:00 p.m. EDT. Share. Add to your saved stories. Save ...

JAKARTA, Indonesia, November 27 (UNHCR) - Two hours west of Jakarta, past the suffocating traffic jams and rows of office buildings, is a laid-back farming district. The air is clean and fields of ...

Scraping opium resin off a seedpod in Myanmar's remote poppy fields, displaced farmer Aung Hla describes the narcotic crop as his only prospect in a country made barren by conflict.

Farmers in Myanmar are facing an uncertain future after heavy rains destroyed their sesame crops in late June. According to ...

YANGON -- Myanmar is stepping up the development of contract farming zone in the suburban township of Yangon division, working out a systematic plan of plantation of agricultural crops by private ...

PIF provides agricultural training, business mentorship, and connections to lucrative markets like farmers’ markets and CSA ...

Total strikes Burma farm-in deal Total has inked a deal with Thailand’s PTTEP to farm into a block off Burma that will enable it to play a key role in exploiting the country’s largely untapped ...

Myanmar’s opium production was previously second only to Afghanistan, where poppy farming flourished following the US-led invasion in the wake of the September 11, 2001 attacks.