Myanmar

The capital and main city is Yangon.
The official language is Burmese
Area: 261,228 sq mi (approx. 3x the size of the State of Michigan)
Population approx. 52 million in 2014
Climate: Myanmar lies in the monsoon region of Asia, with its coastal regions receiving over 5,000 mm (196.9 in) of rain annually

Fun Fact: Myanmar has the largest book in the world. The book is situated in Kuthodaw pagoda in Mandalay. It has 1460 pages and 730 leaves. Each page is 107cm (3.51 ft) wide, 13cm (5.1 in) thick and 153cm (5.02 ft) tall!

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Publications and Presentations

The “Quiet Revolution” in Aquaculture Value Chains

Published on August 27, 2018
Ben Belton, World Aquaculture Society, Montpellier, France, August 27, 2018
Myanmar’s Rural Economy: A Case Study in Delayed Transformation

Published on July 28, 2018
Nilar Aung, Duncan Boughton, Ben Belton, Mateusz Filipski and Ellen Payongayong, Myanmar’s Rural Economy: A Case Study in Delayed Transformation, Workshop on Rural Transformation in the 21st Century, Vancouver, Canada, July 28, 2018.
USAID Burma Food Security Policy Project: Supporting Agricultural Transformation in Myanmar

Published on July 25, 2018
Duncan Boughton and Ben Belton, USAID Burma Food Security Policy Project: Supporting Agricultural Transformation in Myanmar, USAID Burma, Yangon. July 25, 2018.
Mechanization and Crop Productivity, Profitability and Labor Use in Myanmar’s Dry Zone. Research Highlights 14

Published on July 23, 2018
Research Highlights, Myanmar 14: David Mather and Ben Belton, July 2018
From Aspiration to Transformation: Myanmar Agriculture and the Rural Economy

Published on June 1, 2018
Duncan Boughton and Ben Belton, Yangon, Myanmar, June 1, 2018