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Subject: Training offered to Burmese officials




March 10, 1999  
Training offered to Burmese officials
Than Shwe keen on integrated farming

Achara Ashayagachat
Burmese officials have been invited to train at farms and factories
operated by
Charoen Pokphand Group, the Thai agriculture giant that has invested US$9.4
million in farm businesses in Burma.
The offer was made yesterday when Senior General Than Shwe, chairman of
Burma's
State Peace and Development Council and prime minister, visited the group's
poultry farm and production facility at Bangkok Produce Merchandising Ltd in
Saraburi before ending his first official visit to Thailand.
Sen Gen Than Shwe and his delegation were enthusiastic about the potential of
integrated farming.
Burma is trying to increase agricultural productivity, especially of crops
that
would substitute for imports and save foreign currency.
CP has two businesses in Burma together worth $9.4 million. Myanmar CP
Livestock Co Ltd is wholly-owned investment arm, while CP Yangon is a trading
company.
Myanmar CP Livestock operates a feedmill factory with an annual production
capacity of 84,000 tons, and a poultry business, said Nattakrit Sivasri,
senior
vice-president of CP's agribusiness unit. 
CP has hired 354 families in Burma as contract farmers providing up to 10.4
million day-old broiler chicks annually, as well as 1.3 million laying hens.
CP Yangon trades raw materials including fishmeal, soybean animal feed and
corn, and promotes production of hybrid corn, vegetable seeds and marine
products.
"We are the first foreign company to promote chicken raising in the country
since 1996 and we have been asked to promote pig breeding and aquaculture," Mr
Nattakrit said.
However, business in Burma was expected to expand gradually as Burmese
currently had low buying power, he added.
The official exchange rate of six kyat per dollar against the black market
rate
of 344 is another barrier to expansion of foreign investment in Burma.

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