Technical Centers for Farmers and Food Producers
(တောင်သူစိုက်ပျိုး၊ထုတ်လုပ် နည်းပညာပံ့ပိုးရေးစင်တာ)
Technical Centers are agricultural service centers for farmers providing essential technical services, access to knowledge and affordable technologies.
Agriculture is the business of managing the variables of environment, commercials and supply chain. Today the variables are becoming more unpredictable than ever due to disruptive factors such as climate change, pandemics, socio- and geo-political dynamics. A smallholder farmer in a developing country will always be struggling to sustain her farming operations if the input prices are too high and the products are not bought with market price due to pesticide residue on her produces or the lack of carbon commitment.
As one of the least developed countries in the world, Myanmar has many input (product) suppliers capitalizing on the limited knowledge of farmers and almost no agricultural service providers. UN agencies, NGOs/INGOs and civil society organizations have identified the gap through the research and surveys, however project-based interventions are often not operationally sustainable beyond the completion of such projects. Technical Centers, embarked on the multi-stakeholder collaboration platform CSAID, aim to fill this gap with a more commercially and operationally sustainable model by bringing new technologies and localizing them so that they can be scaled throughout the country to democratize the farmer communities by endowing more freedom of choice to liberate themselves to become more resilient to shocks, adopt sustainable practices and have improved livelihoods.
