Union Government Meeting: Senior General Addresses Meeting 2/2022

Chairman of the State Administration Council Prime Minister Senior General Min Aung Hlaing on Wednesday addressed the meeting 2/2022 of the Union government at the SAC Chairman Office.

In his address, the Senior General said that it is necessary to reduce cooking oil consumption while ministries and chief ministers need to seek the best way for increased production of edible oil. If edible oil crops are grown on all cultivable lands through double cropping, the per-acre yield of edible oil crops will increase.

Concerning the agriculture sector, research is not enough – it’s important how to implement the findings of the research. Regarding sunflower, hybrid strain is suitable. The Senior General stressed the need to do cultivation of seasonal crops and operate river water pumping stations with solar power as well as strive for the development of the nation.

The Senior General urged all to implement generating of electricity through solar power in respective regions to reduce the supply of electricity from the national grid. Currently, electrification must be implemented with solar power while efforts must be made for timely completion of the electric power projects within two or three years. It is necessary to increase the export volume and reduce the import of edible oil and fuel as much as possible, the Senior General noted. He also said that only when the people receive COVID-19 vaccination, will it take the preventive measure against the disease infection to some extent.

Ministries and region and state authorities should avoid seeking profits by applying authority and must focus on serving the interests of the nation without political scandals. Region and state chief ministers were urged to make efforts for doing nation-building endeavors as the good records in the tenure of the current government.

Before the address of the Senior General, Union ministers reported on changes in agricultural techniques for increasing per-acre yield, establishment of a special zone for edible oil crops, plans to generate electricity from hydropower, wind power, recycle and solar power projects, cross-border interconnection projects and electrification in regions and states, efforts to reduce import volume of palm oil and to stabilize the price of palm oil, and arrangements to vaccinate students under 12 in 2022-2023 academic year.

In conclusion, the Senior General said officials must supervise thrifty measures for all expenses of the ministries as much as possible. He highlighted that all courses of universities will be reopened in May 2022 for students who passed the 2019-2020 academic year matriculation examination. The Senior General said regions and states have been allowed to organize Thingyan festival this year as COVID-19 can be placed under control to some extent.