Myanmar’s agricultural exports swelled to US$971.957 million in the past two months of the current financial year 2024-2025, beginning 1 April, according to the Ministry of Commerce.

The figures reflected a significant increase of over $379 million compared with the ($592.7 million) recorded in the corresponding period last FY2023-2024.

Myanmar exports agricultural products, animal products, minerals, forest products, and finished industrial goods through maritime and border trade channels, while it imports capital goods, intermediate goods, raw mate­rials imported by the CMP enterprises and consumer goods.

Myanmar has been implement­ing the National Export Strategy (NES) 2020-2025 in order to boost ex­ports. The priority sectors of the NES in­clude agricultural production, garment and apparel, industrial and electronic device, fishery business, forest product, digital manufacturing and service, logis­tic service, quality management, trade information service, innovation and en­trepreneurship sectors. — NN/KK