Download or read book Monitoring the impact of COVID 19 in Myanmar Rice millers July 2020 survey round in Burmese written by Goeb, Joseph and published by Intl Food Policy Res Inst. This book was released on 2020-10-23 with total page 9 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Monitoring the impact of COVID 19 in Myanmar Rice millers September 2020 survey round in Burmese written by Goeb, Joseph and published by Intl Food Policy Res Inst. This book was released on 2021-01-14 with total page 9 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Monitoring the impact of COVID 19 in Myanmar Rice millers July 2020 survey round written by Goeb, Joseph and published by Intl Food Policy Res Inst. This book was released on 2020-09-10 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To understand how Myanmar’s rice value chain has been affected by the COVID-19 crisis, a series of phone interviews are being conducted with rice millers from Ayeyarwady, Bago, and Yangon. This report presents results from the first round of interviews that was conducted in July 2020 with 404 medium- and large-scale mill owners and managers. Key Findings Strikingly, 60 percent of mills are anticipating a revenue drop of at least 30 percent this year compared to 2019. Only 3 percent of mills are expecting an increase in revenue. Just over half of the mills interviewed experienced disruptions in selling milled rice and in buying paddy. However, those impacts have lessened considerably, as only 15 percent of millers reported experiencing those disruptions in the past 30 days. Almost all mills regarded byproduct sales as important to their business. Roughly half reported no changes in byproduct prices compared to 2019, but one-quarter reported price increases, while the other quarter reported decreases. Mills from Ayeyarwady have been more negatively impacted by lower byproduct prices than elsewhere. For most mills, both paddy purchase and rice sales prices are now slightly higher than the 2019 average. Interestingly, prices increased more for low-quality varieties than for high-quality varieties. Margins for low-quality varieties have increased relative to 2019, while they have decreased for high-quality varieties. Thus, mills producing larger quantities of high-quality rice now may be adversely affected by lower margins. Recommended Actions Continue and expand the government relief loan program offered to small and medium enterprises – Action 2.1.1 under the COVID-19 Economic Relief Plan (CERP) of the Government of Myanmar. This would assist mills struggling with lower revenues and buffer smaller mills from further shocks during the crisis. Government should extend tax relief to mills hard hit by the COVID-19 crisis through waivers or deferrals (CERP Action 2.1.3). Government should facilitate exports by putting in place easier licensing processes (CERP Action 2.4.3), such as allowing licenses to be obtained online.

Download or read book Monitoring the impact of COVID 19 in Myanmar Rice millers September 2020 survey round written by Goeb, Joseph and published by Intl Food Policy Res Inst. This book was released on 2020-12-07 with total page 7 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the third policy note in a series presenting the results from rounds of telephone surveys with rice millers in three important rice-growing regions of Myanmar: Ayeyarwady, Bago, and Yangon. Mills are the most important link between farms and consumers in the rice value chain. Thus, any shocks to rice mills will impact both rural rice-producing households as well as urban consumers.

Download or read book Monitoring the impact of COVID 19 in Myanmar Rice millers August 2020 survey round written by Goeb, Joseph and published by Intl Food Policy Res Inst. This book was released on 2020-10-28 with total page 6 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the second policy note in a series presenting the results from telephone surveys with approximately 400 rice millers in three important rice-growing regions of Myanmar: Ayeyarwady, Bago, and Yangon. Mills are the most important link between farms and consumers in the rice value chain. In addition to drying, milling, processing, and storing rice, mills also buy paddy directly from farmers and often provide farmers with inputs on credit. Thus, any shocks to rice mills will impact both rural rice-producing households and urban consumers. To understand how the COVID-19 crisis and the corresponding policy responses are affecting the business activities of rice mills in Myanmar, we are conducting a panel telephone survey with rice millers. Interviews have been conducted every 30 days starting in July 2020, continuing through the monsoon harvests and ending in November. This report presents the results from the second survey round conducted in August. Interviews were completed by August 22, before a second wave of COVID-19 infections began to spread widely in Myanmar.

Download or read book Monitoring the impact of COVID 19 in Myanmar Rice millers October 2020 survey round written by Goeb, Joseph and published by Intl Food Policy Res Inst. This book was released on 2020-12-21 with total page 7 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To understand how Myanmar’s rice value chain has been affected by the COVID-19 crisis, a series of phone interviews is being conducted with rice millers from Ayeyarwady, Bago, and Yangon. This report presents results from the fourth interview round conducted in October 2020. These results capture the effects of the second wave of COVID-19 related lockdowns that began in September.

Download or read book Monitoring the impact of COVID 19 in Myanmar Rice millers August 2020 survey round in Burmese written by Goeb, Joseph and published by Intl Food Policy Res Inst. This book was released on 2021-01-14 with total page 7 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Monitoring the Impact of COVID 19 in Myanmar Mechanization service providers July 2020 survey round in Burmese written by Takeshima, Hiroyuki and published by Intl Food Policy Res Inst. This book was released on 2020-08-11 with total page 9 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Monitoring the impact of COVID 19 in Myanmar Urban food retailers Early July 2020 survey round written by Masias, Ian and published by Intl Food Policy Res Inst. This book was released on 2020-08-27 with total page 7 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traditional family owned retail shops are the backbone of Myanmar’s consumer market. As the final node in the grocery supply chain, they sell all types of dry foods, i.e., processed and packaged, condiments, snacks, and beverages to final consumers. To some extent, they also supply basic staple grains, i.e., rice and pulses; dairy products; eggs; kitchen crops; and tobacco and alcohol. About 85 percent of all consumer goods in Myanmar are sold through these shops. In the food and grocery sector, these retail outlets, including wet markets, account for 90 percent of all sales, with the other 10 percent accounted for by fast-growing supermarkets. Because of the importance of traditional retail outlets in the last mile delivery of a wide variety of foods to consumers, any challenges they encounter from the COVID-19 crisis and corresponding policy responses to contain the virus have important implications for the availability and affordability of food for final consumers. This policy note is the first in a series of reports presenting results from rounds of a telephone survey of a sample of owners or managers of food retail shops located in the two largest cities in Myanmar, Yangon and Mandalay. The phone surveys are designed to provide a better understanding of the effects of COVID-19 shocks on Myanmar’s agri-food marketing system through the perspective of small-scale food retailers in urban areas. This policy note focuses on the demand side and overall business effects of the COVID-19 crisis on these food retailers. Phone interviews were conducted with 426 retail shop owners or managers between 8 and 15 July 2020. Eighty percent of those surveyed were in Yangon, with the rest in Mandalay.

Download or read book Monitoring the impacts of COVID 19 in Myanmar Food vendors June and July 2020 survey round written by Minten, Bart and published by Intl Food Policy Res Inst. This book was released on 2020-09-15 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is feared that the COVID-19 pandemic will lead to widespread increases in global poverty and food insecurity and that these negative impacts will concentrate on the most vulnerable segments of the population (Swinnen and McDermott 2020). Although Myanmar, with one of the lowest COVID-19 infection rates in the world, has been spared the worst direct impacts of the disease, its economy remains highly vulnerable to the economic fallout of the contagion. A major contributor to increased food insecurity in Myanmar is the reduction of income among vulnerable populations (Diao et al. 2020), partly due to significant declines in remittances in the country (Diao and Wang 2020). In addition, disruptions to food marketing systems and changes in farm and consumer prices could also turn out to be major drivers of food insecurity. Changes in food markets – including supply of commodities and transport - and food and agricultural prices are an obvious concern to policy makers, given the importance of agricultural prices for the income of farmers and food prices for the purchasing power of consumers.

Download or read book Monitoring the impact of COVID 19 in Myanmar Mechanization service providers June 2020 survey round in Burmese written by Takeshima, Hiroyuki and published by Intl Food Policy Res Inst. This book was released on 2020-07-28 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Monitoring the impacts of COVID 19 in Myanmar Food vendors November 2020 survey round written by Oo, Than Zaw and published by Intl Food Policy Res Inst. This book was released on 2020-12-17 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This policy note presents results from five rounds of a telephone survey with food vendors conducted in different rural and urban zones of the country, focusing on results from the last round completed. The purpose of the survey is to provide data and insights to the government, development partners, and interested stakeholders to understand the COVID-19 related shocks on Myanmar’s food markets. In particular, the note explores prevention measures, changes in shopping behavior, difficulties in food vendor operations due to the COVID-19 crisis, changes in availability and prices of foods, perceived changes in consumption, and suggested policy actions by these food vendors.

Download or read book Monitoring the impact of COVID 19 in Myanmar Agricultural production and rural livelihoods in two irrigation schemes August 2020 survey round in Burmese written by Lambrecht, Isabel and published by Intl Food Policy Res Inst. This book was released on 2020-11-04 with total page 10 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Monitoring the Impact of COVID 19 in Myanmar Agricultural production and rural livelihoods in two irrigation schemes June 2020 survey round in Burmese written by Lambrecht, Isabel and published by Intl Food Policy Res Inst. This book was released on 2020-09-29 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Monitoring the impact of COVID 19 in Myanmar Urban food retailers Late July 2020 survey round written by Maredia, Mywish K. and published by Intl Food Policy Res Inst. This book was released on 2020-08-31 with total page 9 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the second policy note in a series presenting results from rounds of a telephone survey of a sample of retail food shop owners or managers located in two cities in Myanmar – Yangon, the economic center of the country with 4.4 million inhabitants, and Mandalay, the second largest city with 1.1 million inhabitants. The phone surveys are designed to better understand the effects of COVID-19 shocks on Myanmar’s agri-food marketing system from the perspective of these smallscale urban food retailers. Their shops are an important outlet for final consumers to purchase a variety of consumer goods, including many types of processed and packaged dry foods, condiments, snacks, beverages, basic staple grains (i.e., rice and pulses), dairy products, eggs, kitchen crops, tobacco, and alcohol products. The COVID-19 economic crisis could bring dramatic changes to these retailers – not only on the demand side in terms of the food purchasing behaviors of consumers, but also on the supply side in terms of how the food supply chains upon which they rely function and how they respond to these changes. This policy note builds on the analysis of the firstround of the survey, which focused on the demand side and overall business effects of COVID-19, by adding detailed questions on three additional themes – supplier options, credit extended and received by retailers, and the use of modern technologies and practices.

Download or read book Monitoring the impact of COVID 19 in Myanmar Mechanization service providers July 2020 survey round written by Takeshima, Hiroyuki and published by Intl Food Policy Res Inst. This book was released on 2020-07-31 with total page 10 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mechanization service providers in Myanmar were originally interviewed by telephone in May 2020 and again in June 2020 to determine how their businesses were being affected by COVID-19 related restrictions. The results of those surveys were published in Myanmar Strategy Support Program Policy Notes 07 and 12, respectively. To trace the continuing impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on their economic activities, a third phone survey of mechanization service providers was done in early-July 2020. This Note reports on the results of the third survey, as well as some trends since the first and the second surveys.

Download or read book Monitoring the impact of COVID 19 in Myanmar Mechanization service providers June 2020 survey round written by Takeshima, Hiroyuki and published by Intl Food Policy Res Inst. This book was released on 2020-07-14 with total page 9 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mechanization service providers in Myanmar were originally interviewed by telephone in early May 2020 in order to determine how their businesses were being affected by COVID-19 related restrictions. The results of that survey were published in Myanmar Strategy Support Program Policy Note 07. To trace the continuing impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on their economic activities, a second phone survey of mechanization service providers was done in mid-June 2020. This Policy Note reports on the results of this second survey.