Policies, Institutions and Processes to Support Agricultural Mechanization Development in Myanmar’s Dry Zone

The Dry Zone of Myanmar suffers from high levels of poverty and food insecurity. Agriculture is an important source of livelihood but rainfall is concentrated in a few months of the rainy season with an erratic duration and wide deviation in annual precipitation. This makes the Dry Zone especially vulnerable to the impacts of climate change. Climate change also exacerbates the adverse effects of land and environmental degradation leading to poor and fragile soils.