Friday, March 6, 2009

Commercial-scale farms necessary for boosting tea production

Gifted with fertile soil and temperate climate, Myanmar is a land where various species of crops grow well. Delta and plain regions, for instance, cultivate paddy, beans and pulses, edible oil crops and seasonal crops on a commercial scale. It is required of highlands to grow such perennial trees as rubber, avocado mango and tea extensively.
Tea thrives especially in the regions with an altitude of about 3000 feet and above. So, Shan State, Chin State and Sagaing Division should choose appropriate species of tea to grow. Now, Chin State and Sagaing Division are having a geographical spread of tea farms, and producing quality tea on a small scale township-wise.
Namsang Township in northern Shan State occupies about 80 per cent of the nation’s total acreage of tea farms. So, it has to transform its thriving tea farms into commercial-scale ones by applying advanced agricultural methods and making best investments. Today, tea is used to make not only plain tea but also raw materials for value-added products such as cosmetics and personal goods. Therefore, tea-growing regions have to focus on production of value-added tea-based products, while trying to achieve both quantitative and qualitative improvement in the tea enterprise.
Now, everything goes according to the plans in many sectors such as transport and health the government is implementing for development of Namsang Township. In response, local national entrepreneurs should pay more attention to boosting production of quality tea by means of establishing large tea farms to enjoy greater profits.

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