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Burma (Myanmar)

  1. Overview
  2. Country Strategy
  3. Priorities
  4. Key Program Managers
  5. Current Projects
  6. Concluded Projects
  7. Achievements
  8. Relevant Publications
  9. Country Office
  10. Country Portfolio
  11. AusAid and Other Briefs
  12. Fellowship Statistics
Overview

After exploratory visits in 2002 to determine the feasibility of collaborative research activities, ACIAR developed a small program with Burma with the first projects commencing in 2003. In light of the current international situation, development of new projects is on hold. There have been limited opportunities for new activities to be pursued through multilateral organisations, and currently there is one ICRISAT-led project on improving productivity of legumes.

Although there has been rather limited international development cooperation in agriculture with Burma since 1988, several trained researchers and basic facilities are present to allow effective cooperation. Burma has already benefited through FAO from the spillover of other ACIAR projects in the region, most notably vaccines against Newcastle disease in chickens, and improved legume varieties and their inoculation with nitrogen-fixing bacteria.