Farmers Feature Features (OLD) Lead Story News
A changing climate is putting downward pressure on residents in Burma’s Dry Zone, where farming families stretch back generations.
Environment Farmers Lead Story Natural resources News
The number of quarries in Mon State is quickly increasing and locals say authorities fail to regulate their environmental impact on farmlands.
Lead Story Natural Disasters News Pegu Division
“Farmlands located in the east and west of Zigon were destroyed. The floodwater is yet to subside, and the river is still swelling.”
At the expense of poor farmers, land grabs have been on the rise since conflict re-erupted in Kachin State.
More than 95 percent of confiscated lands – some 350,000 acres – have been returned to farmers across Burma, according to the government’s Land Utilisation Management Committee, noting that just 17,091 acres are left to be returned nationwide.
2015 Elections Interview Lead Story News Politics
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
Farmers in flood-hit Burma face a scramble to replant damaged paddy fields in the next two weeks to avoid food shortages.
As many as one hundred and fifty towns in lower Sagaing Division have been inundated, impacting as many as ten thousand people.
Irrawaddy Division Land Lead Story News
Local farmers from the Irrawaddy delta staged a protest rally on Friday, demanding the return of land they claim was confiscated in 1999-2000.
Residents from Malakyun and Gonchein villages are demanding compensation for the farmland destroyed by the company’s operations.
DVB spoke to the founder and leader of the Myanmar Farmers Union about her organisation’s aims and future plans.
2015 Elections Lead Story News
In election news: The NLD launches an awareness campaign; the USDP plans a strategy for victory; a code of conduct for the press.
Karenni Land Lead Story News Protest
Following last week’s sentencing of three local farmers, a Karenni court finds six more guilty of trespassing, prompting local supporters to stage a rally.
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”.
Restrictions on the movement and sale of poultry are in place as a H5N1 outbreak takes hold in Sagaing Division.
Farmers in Shan State are owed a huge sum of money after their trading partners were arrested back in China.
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
A stand-off continues on Wednesday between farmers and construction company workers at an urban development project in Tavoy in Tenasserim Division.
Analysis Contributor Land Lead Story News
Burma’s National Land Use Policy must first address the discrepancies between protecting vulnerable peoples’ land use rights and claims before creating an enabling investment environment.
Law Lead Story News Parliament
Aung San Suu Kyi’s proposed bill calling on government ministries to speed-up the issuance of bylaws and regulations was unanimously approved by parliament on Wednesday.
Business Development Lead Story News
The price of rice in Burma has increased by 41 percent in four years, much higher than rivals Thailand and Cambodia. This has led to a decrease in Burmese rice exports and food security at home.
Land Lead Story News Pegu Division
Around 450 acres of land belonging to 123 farmers in Dhammange, Phalanbin, Jobintha and Shasaybo villages were allegedly confiscated in 1991 by the Burmese army.
Development Land Lead Story News
A coalition of ethnic NGOs says the draft National Land Use Policy is flawed because it overlooks traditional shifting agricultural practices in Burma.
The ten were part of more than 100 local villagers who attended a rally in Hpa-an on 25 August calling for the return of lands they allege were seized from them by the military government in 1986.
Seven farmers from Kanbalu in Sagaing Division, jailed for staging plough protests on confiscated land, were released from prison after serving their full three-month sentences.
Twenty-eight farmers near Pyin Oo Lwin, Mandalay Division, are facing eviction after years of property battles, villagers say.
More than a hundred farmers from nine villages in Hpa-an Township, Karen State, staged a rally on Monday demanding the return of lands they say were seized by the military many years ago.
As brands of Burmese alcohol compete with recently approved foreign liquor imports, Karenni villagers are fighting to retain local brewing customs.
Environment Lead Story News Pegu Division
The regional government of Pegu Division pledged to assist local farmers whose paddy fields were damaged in recent flooding.
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