Evaluating State Agricultural Development Policy in Contemporary Myanmar

This research mainly focused on the performance of agricultural development policy and its crucial challenges in contemporary Myanmar. The main goal of the research was to provide the policy recommendation by using the formulated findings of the research. The problem was that Myanmar is including in the list of the world’s poorest countries in the world, ranked 58, and it is still lingering in the record of the world’s least developed countries with very bad ranking for a long time. Moreover, the majority of citizens face food insecurity, poverty and other related problems in the nation. Generally, pragmatic analysis with qualitative approach was implemented in this study. Other methods are used including in-depth interviews and use of secondary data. Again, to be more obvious, the primary part of this research was compared with the situations of Thailand’s agriculture. Thailand is an agriculture-based country too, and the most of background situations are also similar to Myanmar. But, on the global economic stage of present, Thailand was become a new industrialized country by the impacts of its agricultural achievement. At the same time, Myanmar is still struggling in the situation of frustrated agriculture to step to the developed level. Therefore, research findings include the fundamental differences and crucial requirements between Thailand and Myanmar. Moreover, the effective recommendations which in order to pass or resolve the adverse challenges of Myanmar’s agricultural policy are also included in this paper.