Burma (Myanmar) - Country Office

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

Country Office

Priorities are developed through visits by research program managers and other senior staff meeting with leading agricultural R&D institutions and government bodies.

If the current international situation changed to allow an increase in future collaboration, it would likely be in some of the following areas:

• improvement in the productivity of pulse (grain legume) and oilseed crops, which are important for year-round food security and nutrition and provide important cash income for small farmers, in semi-arid areas
• minimisation of preharvest and possibly postharvest losses of rice
• management of serious diseases of smallholder livestock
• development of a new cohort of researchers and managers with international postgraduate and shortcourse training in agriculture.