Farmland Management and Investment: Chief Minister attends coordination meetings

Shan State Farmland Management Committee Meeting 6/2022 and the State Vacant, Virgin and Follow Land Management Committee Meeting (6/2022) was held at the Shan State Government Office in Taunggyi on Friday.

At the meeting, Chairman of the State Farmland Management Committee and the State Farmland Vacant, Follow and Virgin Land Management Committee, Shan State Chief Minister Dr Kyaw Tun said that in order to quickly decide on the businesses submitted by the people, each level of the district/township farming group and the relevant departments should carefully verify the facts and the evidences according to the type of applied businesses.

The Committee will have to decide quickly the issues that can be allowed and took the remark of the State government and will report the issues that should be submitted to the Central Committee on Management of Vacant, Fallow and Virgin Lands.

The Chief Minister added that the lands that can be established the livestock zones are reclaimed in Shan State in line with the Head of State and the applications are being permitted for livestock breeding in Mongsat, Tachileik and Kengtung districts in Shan State East.

It is planned to establish Keng Kham in Yatsauk Township, the southern Shan State as the breeding zone addition to coffee zone. He also called for cultivation of coffee, macadamia, avocado and marketable orchard crops. Later, the decisions of the previous meeting were read out.

The reports of the State Farmland Management Committee Meeting (6/2022) and the land appeals were discussed and the reports of the meeting were decided and the general affairs were discussed.

On September 29, the Chief Minister, in his capacity as Chairman of the Shan State Investment Committee, addressed the Committee’s meeting 4/2022.

In his address, the Chief Minister stressed the importance of regular inspection and surprise check and urged attendees to work on facilitation and promotion to create an investment-friendly environment.

It’s reported that Shan State Investment Committee permitted 22 foreign investments worth over 763 million USD and 81 domestic investments worth over 527 million USD. These investments created over 13,000 locals and foreigners.