Expansion Of Coffee Plantation: Growers Can Apply Farmlands To Plant Coffees

Coffee cultivation acreage will be extended up to 300,000 acres by dividing into three zones across the country.

In 2010, 100,000 acres of coffee plantation were planted in PyinOoLwin, Mandalay Region and Naung Cho in Shan State (North).

Currently, some growers plants coffee officially and some don’t abide the farmland law in growing coffee plants. So, the government will reclaim the lands where the farming is not conducted in line with the law and the rights will be given to the farmers who really grow coffees. An official of the Department of Agriculture Land Management and Statistics said that the growerswho want to cultivate coffee, can apply the acreages according to the law.

U Myint Aung, Director, Dept. of Agriculture Land Management &Statistics(DALMS) said “I would like to inform the farmers who want to cultivate coffee plants can apply the farmlands and the farmers can expand their coffee plantations in the vacant and fallow lands. Our department will help the farmers to legalize the lands that they develop in line with the law.”

Currently, there are legally over 40,000 acres of coffee plantations across the country and Shan State isthe most coffee plantation with over 20,000 acres. Kayin State is the second one with over 10,000 acres and Mandalay region is the third one with 5,000 acres of coffee cultivation.