2012 Myanmar Rice Export Breaks Record

Myanmar rice has been exported over 1.2 million metric tonnes within ten months of this fiscal year 2012-13. The ministry hopes to export another 300,000 metric tonnes before the closing of this fiscal. Myanmar measures April 1 to March 31 as the country fiscal year. Myanmar rice exporting has been down after 1956. Before that year, Myanmar exported average over one million metric tonnes annually.