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The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations announced that today the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Irrigation (MoALI) and the Ministry of Education (MoE) have officially launched the MoALI Disaster Risk Reduction Task Force and Drone Mapping Team. The launching ceremony, held at the Department of Agricultural...

Current influenza situation in Myanmar According to the Ministry of Health and Sports Myanmar faces a seasonal human flu (caused mainly by H1N1 subtype) that has been officially confirmed by laboratory tests. In addition, the Livestock Breeding and Veterinary Department (LBVD) has reported on the incidence of Influenza Type A(H5N1) at layer...

On 8th September, a delegation from FAO’s Office of Evaluation presented to members of the government the results from theevaluation of FAO’s contribution to the Myanmar Country Programme. This encompassed but was not limited to FAO’sinterventions under the FAO Myanmar Country Programming Framework (2012–2016).“The FAO Office of Evaluation has been conducting...

FAO Myanmar has recently completed a project titled “Support for animal feeding strategies for improved livestock production” implemented in collaboration with the Livestock, Breeding and Veterinary Department (LBVD), of the Ministry of Agricultural, Livestock and Irrigation (MoALI). Over a three years implementation period (2014-2017), the project succeeded to achieve its...

Agriculture has increasingly become knowledge intensive. Access to the right information at the right time through the right means makes a huge difference in the livelihood of farmers.  In Myanmar, the merger of the 2 ministries has given an excellent opportunities to look at emerging information and communication technologies (ICTs)...