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Opening Up New Opportunities for Sesame Farmers

Myanmar is one of the world’s top exporters of sesame, a crop grown by an estimated 500,000 farmers in the country’s Central Dry Zone. And yet sesame is known as the forgotten crop because of its tendency to be overshadowed by the more established paddy.

Sesame has the potential to generate even more export income for the country, but for that to happen, sesame farmers need help dealing with threats from climate change, labor shortages, pests and diseases.

Proximity Designs, a social business and one of Myanmar’s largest providers of agricultural products and services, has conducted extensive research into the sesame ecosystem and published the results in When It Rains, It Pours: Challenges and Opportunities in Myanmar’s Sesame Value Chain, now available online and in book forms.

“Even though sesame is the second largest staple crop in Myanmar, the thousands of farmers who grow this crop have been poorly served for many years,” said Jim Taylor, CEO and co-founder of Proximity Designs.

Through its research, Proximity has not only uncovered the challenges facing sesame farmers but also identified opportunity areas around farming, distribution and refinement of sesame, said Daw Phyu Hninn Nyein, Proximity’s General Manager of Farm Advisory Services.

“We hope other stakeholders join us in supporting the sesame ecosystem,” she said. “In Myanmar, we have a saying, ‘You cannot make oil with just one sesame seed.’ The more organizations that work to meaningfully meet the needs of sesame farmers, the more impact we can create together.

An online version of When It Rains, It Pours is available free of charge at this site: https://proximitydesigns.org/wp-content/uploads/When-It-Rains-It-Pours-pdf Interested readers can obtain a printed copy by emailing: engage@proximitydesigns.org.

လူမႈစီးပြားေရးလုပ္ငန္းသည္ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံ တြင္ စိုက္ပ်ိဳးေရးပစၥည္းမ်ား ထုတ္လုပ္ၿပီး ေက်းလက္ေနေတာင္သူမ်ားအား စိုက္ပ်ိဳး ေရးဆိုင္ရာနည္းပညာအႀကံ Óဏ္ဝန္ေဆာင္ မႈမ်ားေပးေနသည့္ အႀကီးမားဆုံးအဖြဲ႕ အ စည္းမ်ားထဲမွတစ္ခုျဖစ္သည့္ ဏမသထငာငအပ ီန်ငါည် က ျမန္မာ့ႏွမ္းေစ်းကြက္ႏွင့္ပတ္ သက္ေသာ စိန္ေခၚမႈမ်ားႏွင့္အခြင့္အလမ္း မ်ား အေၾကာင္းေရးသားထားေသာစာအုပ္ ကို မိတ္ဆက္ခဲ့သည္။
ဏမသထငာငအပ ီန်ငါည် မွထြက္ရွိသည့္ တတိယေျမာက္စာအုပ္ ႊၽ့နည ႈအ ြၽေငည်ယႈအ ဏသကမ် စာအုပ္မိတ္ဆက္တင္ျပသည့္ပြဲတြင္ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံရွိ ႏွမ္းေဂဟစနစ္အေၾကာင္းကို တစ္ႏိုင္တစ္ပိုင္ေတာင္သူမ်ားဘက္မွ အျမင္ ျဖင့္ အက်ယ္တဝင့္ေလ့လာေရးသားထား သည္။ ေတာင္သူမ်ား ႀကဳံေတြ႕ေနေရသည့္ စိန္ေခၚမႈမ်ားကို ေဖာ္ထုတ္ေျဖရွင္းႏိုင္မည့္ လက္ေတြ႕က်သည့္ အခြင့္အလမ္းမ်ားအ ေၾကာင္းလည္း ပါဝင္ထားသည္။
”ႏွမ္းက ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံမွာ ဒုတိယအဓိကအ က်ဆုံးသီးႏွံျဖစ္ေပမယ့္ ေထာင္နဲ႔ခ်ီတဲ့ႏွမ္း စိုက္ေတာင္သူေတြဟာ ႏွစ္ေပါင္းမ်ားစြာ အက်ိဳးမခံစားရဘူး။ ၿပီးခဲ့တဲ့ႏွစ္က ဒီလိုအပ္ ခ်က္ေတြကိုစၿပီးျဖည့္စြမ္းႏိုင္ဖို႔နဲ႔ အလ်င္ အျမန္ေျပာင္းလဲေနတဲ့ ျမန္မာ့ေက်းလက္ေဒ သကိုလည္းထည့္သြင္းစဥ္းစားဖို႔ ကြၽန္ေတာ္ တို႔ဆုံးျဖတ္ခဲ့ၿပီး ႏွမ္းစိုက္ပ်ိဳးမႈနဲ႔ပတ္သက္ၿပီး ေတာ့ ပိုၿပီးနက္နက္နဲနဲနားလည္ႏိုင္ေအာင္ လို႔ ကြၽန္ေတာ္တို႔ ယုံၾကည္အားထားရတဲ့ ွအကိငသ ီ ြၽေိငသိကမေည် နဲ႔လက္တြဲလုပ္ ေဆာင္ခဲ့ပါတယ္”ဟု ဏမသထငာငအပ ီန်ငါည် ၏ ဃႏဥ နဲ႔ တြဲဘက္တည္ေထာင္သူ ဲငာ ႊေပူသမ က ေျပာၾကားခဲ့ပါသည္။
အဆိုပါသုေတသနကို ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံရွိ ႏွမ္း စိုက္ပ်ိဳးမႈအမ်ားဆုံး ေဒသမ်ားတြင္ ဒီဇိုင္းသု ေတသီဆယ္ဦးမွ ရက္သတၱပတ္ရွစ္ပတ္ၾကာ လုပ္ေဆာင္ခဲ့သည္။

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