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    Land Lead Story News

    Court in Burma convicts farmers of trespass in ‘blow’ to land rights

    A Burmese court finds 33 farmers living next to a Special Economic Zone guilty of criminal trespass, a ruling seen by activists as a blow to land rights in a country with a rising demand for property for industrial use.

    Land Lead Story Mandalay Division News

    Police break up farmers’ protest camp in Mandalay

    Police forcibly broke up a sit-in last night, when they cleared farmers, who were protesting land grabs, from a site in central Mandalay. The farmers had been occupying the protest[…]

    Lead Story News

    Dry Zone farmers struggle to switch to new rice varieties

    The introduction of more productive crops is a key strategy for helping vulnerable communities in the Dry Zone.

    Farmers Lead Story Mandalay Division News

    Drip-irrigation helps farmers in Burma’s Dry Zone

    In central Burma’s harsh dry environment, drip-irrigation vegetable gardens help hundreds of families get by.

    Farmers Features Lead Story News

    Climate change-affected soybean farmers get new seeds, technology

    For many small farmers in southern Shan State, where roughly one-quarter of all of Burma’s soybean is grown, harvests have declined in quality and volume, putting pressure on livelihoods.

    Arakan Lead Story News

    Struggling Arakan farmers want more government support

    Many farmers in Arakan State suffer from the lack of labour, low mechanisation and poor market access for farm produce.

    Farmers Land Lead Story News Shan

    Freed farmers renew fight against Burmese Army over land

    Farmers locked in a land dispute with Burma’s armed forces pledged to renew their fight after being released from jail on Friday, in a case testing leader Aung San Suu Kyi’s resolve to challenge the military’s economic interests.

    Farmers struggle to turn away from illicit but lucrative opium video

    Drugs Lead Story News

    Farmers struggle to turn away from illicit but lucrative opium

    At a remote farm about two hours away from Loikaw, capital of Karenni State, farmers scrape out raw opium from the poppies they’ve grown.

    Land Lead Story News Shan

    72 farmers get prison time over land dispute with military

    Scores of farmers in southern Shan State’s Taunggyi township, who were facing trial after the Burmese military pressed criminal trespass charges against them over a land confiscation dispute, were sentenced to one month in prison on Thursday.

    Farmers Lead Story News

    Farmers increase fertiliser use with little knowledge, or regulation

    In recent years, farmers in Irrawaddy Division have come under pressure to modernise, as labour costs rise and productivity of the delta’s soil declines.

    Farmers Lead Story News

    Thai junta offers farmers $514 million in rice loans

    The move to help rice growers struggling with falling prices comes as farmers become the new battleground between the junta and the opposition.

    Karenni Lead Story News

    Karenni farmers say they cannot afford $4 annual tax

    Locals in Demoso say the KNPP imposes an annual tax of about 5,000 kyat per household, and that they were given a 10 October deadline to pay up.

    Arakan Business Lead Story Natural resources News

    Kyaukphyu farmers spurn compensation, say CNPC trying to trick them

    Twenty-one local farmers spurn a compensation ceremony in Kyaukphyu, Arakan State, when they find that the event was being staged to conclude the matter without attempting to rectify damage to their fields.

    Land Lead Story News Sagaing

    Sagaing farmers call for compensation, closure of nickel mine

    Residents from 22 villages around the town of Tigyaing said they lost a total of 16,632 acres to land grabs by the military government between 2005 and 2008 to make way for the Tagaung Nickel Mining Project and other ventures.

    Ethnic issues Farmers Land Lead Story News

    Ethnic farmers prefer communal land, says CSO report

    A majority of ethnic farmers in Burma would prefer to share community land rather than own their title deed to a plot, according to the findings of the Ethnic Community Development Forum.

    Environment Farmers Lead Story News

    Burma’s farmers fret as weather grows more extreme

    Last year’s floods and other extreme weather events have prompted many farmers in the Irrawaddy Delta to leave some of their land fallow.

    Farmers Lead Story News

    Farmers begin getting bigger loans, but for some, it’s a little too late

    As the government’s agricultural bank begins handing out loans to farmers, some say they have to wait too late for money that has to be paid back too soon.

    Interview Lead Story News

    Interview: ‘Crop substitution plans must be considered for poppy farmers’

    Dr. Nang Pann Ei Kham heads a network of civil society groups and researchers who advocate reforming Burma’s ineffective drug control laws.

    Farmers Lead Story News

    Crime gangs, not farmers to blame for Burma drug trade

    Opium cultivation remains a lucrative source of income for many farmers, but the illegal industry is facing renewed scrutiny in the Asia-Pacific region.

    2015 Elections Interview Lead Story News Politics

    I speak the farmers’ language, says Shan candidate

    Sai Hso Harn spoke to DVB about contesting the regional assembly seat in Langkho, Shan State, and his time running an NGO to provide training for farmers.

    Farmers Lead Story Natural Disasters News

    Burmese farmers in race against time

    Farmers in flood-hit Burma face a scramble to replant damaged paddy fields in the next two weeks to avoid food shortages.

    2015 Elections Land Lead Story News Pegu Division

    3 new parties vow to fight for Burma’s farmers

    More than 400 candidates from three new political parties devoted to representing Burma’s farmers will contest seats in the upcoming November election.

    Land Lead Story News Protest

    Farmers right’s activist jailed

    Farmer’s rights advocate Su Su Nway has been jailed in Pegu Division after being charged with trespassing.

    Farmers from Pantanaw Township rally, demanding the return of land they claim to have been confiscated in 1999-2000. (PHOTO: DVB).

    Irrawaddy Division Land Lead Story News

    Pantanaw farmers rally against land grabs

    Local farmers from the Irrawaddy delta staged a protest rally on Friday, demanding the return of land they claim was confiscated in 1999-2000.

    Land Lead Story News Protest

    Kyaukphyu farmers rally against Daewoo gas plant

    Residents from Malakyun and Gonchein villages are demanding compensation for the farmland destroyed by the company’s operations.

    Karenni Land Lead Story News

    Anger as ‘plough protest’ farmers found guilty

    As many as 500 villagers protested in front of a township court after three of their peers were sentenced for their part in a symbolic “plough protest”.

    Lead Story News Shan Trade

    AWOL Chinese traders leave farmers out of pocket

    Farmers in Shan State are owed a huge sum of money after their trading partners were arrested back in China.

    Land Lead Story Military News

    Minhla farmers call for return of land used for ordnance factory

    Farmers express their wishes for land, seized by the Burmese army more than 20 years ago, to be returned to them.

    Lead Story News Pegu Division

    Farmers decry fishpond-flooding trial as ‘unfair’

    One of the accused farmers said they had received permission to punch the holes in the embankment that caused the fishery to flood.

    Land Lead Story News Tenasserim

    Tavoy farmers in land dispute stand-off

    A stand-off continues on Wednesday between farmers and construction company workers at an urban development project in Tavoy in Tenasserim Division.

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