Author: Wint War Kyaw
AIT Library Call Number: AIT Thesis no.RD-15-07
Year: 2015
Academic Program: Regional and Rural Development Planning (RRDP)
Type: Thesis (M. Sc.) – Asian Institute of Technology, 2015
Examination Committee: Jayant Kumar Routray (Chairperson); Soparth Pongquan, Mokbul Morshed Ahmad (Examination Committee Members)
Abstract: Myanmar is one of the developing countries and agriculture still plays a major economic role in Myanmar. Although only agricultural sector cannot contribute huge amount of national income, it is still important in Myanmar because of its contribution for substantial employments for citizens and national food security. However, people in the rural areas change their livelihood pattern by migrating to other areas in order to find better job opportunities and better services. Migration is an important process for urbanization but systematic migration without disturbing agricultural sector development is desirable to transform from agricultural based developing country to industrialized developed county. According to the topographical condition of Myanmar, lower part of the country is the major rice production zone because of its plain lands and fertile delta areas. Therefore, the study area was chosen from lower Myanmar and the impact of rural labor migration on agricultural crop production was assessed in or der to identify the effects of out-migration on crop production. The key findings of this stud y reveal that farm households have lost family labors after migration and the compensa tion of hired labors did not fully cover the loss of family labor in crop production. In or der to make balance between loss of family labors and increased labor requirement, farm households have increased the use of machines but mechanization did not develop well in all the processes of farming and farmers still rely on human labors during labor intensive periods of cropping such as transplanting and harvesting. In considering remittances, remittances did not contribute much in crop production as a reasonable pro portion of investment and moreover, farm households used large share of remitt
Scholarship Donor(s): AIT Fellowship; Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst (DAAD), Germany
Note: A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science in Regional and Rural Development Planning
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