IN the 2025-2026 financial year, a project to increase rural family income is being implemented in 197 villages across the country, with funding of K2.751 billion, according to Daw Yi Yi Hlaing, Director of the Department of Small-Scale Industries.
The Rural Family Income Growth Project is being implemented in 197 villages across 15 regions and states, including the Nay Pyi Taw Council area, and has facilitated the establishment of small-scale manufacturing businesses.
“The project has enabled people to establish their own businesses; to increase family incomes through the emergence of manufacturing industries; to promote import substitution by producing finished goods based on local raw materials; and to reduce transportation costs, allowing local consumers to purchase goods at lower prices,” Daw Yi Yi Hlaing continued.
The project covered 151 villages across the country in the 2023-2024 financial year and 193 villages in the 2024-2025 financial year. — ASH/TH
