Monitoring the impact of COVID-19 in Myanmar: Agricultural commodity traders - May 2020 survey round
Crop traders comprise the mid-stream of Myanmar’s food supply chain. They form important links between farms and food processors, exporters, and other downstream actors. Because they are close to the farmgate on the supply chain – many purchase agricultural commodities directly from farmers – any ad...
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International Food Policy Research Institute
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| author | Goeb, Joseph Boughton, Duncan Maredia, Mywish K. Zu, A Myint Synt, Nang Lun Kham |
| author_browse | Boughton, Duncan Goeb, Joseph Maredia, Mywish K. Synt, Nang Lun Kham Zu, A Myint |
| author_facet | Goeb, Joseph Boughton, Duncan Maredia, Mywish K. Zu, A Myint Synt, Nang Lun Kham |
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| description | Crop traders comprise the mid-stream of Myanmar’s food supply chain. They form important links between farms and food processors, exporters, and other downstream actors. Because they are close to the farmgate on the supply chain – many purchase agricultural commodities directly from farmers – any additional challenges to traders presented by the COVID-19 crisis and corresponding policy responses have important implications for the crop marketing channels farmers use and for the prices they receive for their crops. Further, challenges or changes to crop trading will have effects on the food system downstream and, ultimately, on consumers. Traders either carry out or facilitate the sales, transport, and purchases of raw agricultural commodities. Thus, they may be negatively affected by the travel and transport restrictions imposed to mitigate the spread of COVID-19 as well as other policy measures that restrict exports or affect food retail channels to consumers. This research note seeks to help the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Irrigation (MOALI) of the Government of Myanmar and agricultural sector stakeholders understand the effects of recent COVID-19 shocks on Myanmar’s agri-food marketing system through the perspective of crop traders. We conducted a phone survey with 154 crop traders to understand the challenges of COVID-19 shocks to both their upstream and downstream operations, (ii) learn about adaptations and changes they are making in response to those challenges, and (iii) track recent (two weeks) and longer-term (last year) changes in the buying and selling prices of the commodities they trade. |
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| spelling | CGSpace1438182025-11-06T07:14:25Z Monitoring the impact of COVID-19 in Myanmar: Agricultural commodity traders - May 2020 survey round Goeb, Joseph Boughton, Duncan Maredia, Mywish K. Zu, A Myint Synt, Nang Lun Kham movement restrictions supply chains agricultural products covid-19 commodities agricultural prices marketing trade prices Crop traders comprise the mid-stream of Myanmar’s food supply chain. They form important links between farms and food processors, exporters, and other downstream actors. Because they are close to the farmgate on the supply chain – many purchase agricultural commodities directly from farmers – any additional challenges to traders presented by the COVID-19 crisis and corresponding policy responses have important implications for the crop marketing channels farmers use and for the prices they receive for their crops. Further, challenges or changes to crop trading will have effects on the food system downstream and, ultimately, on consumers. Traders either carry out or facilitate the sales, transport, and purchases of raw agricultural commodities. Thus, they may be negatively affected by the travel and transport restrictions imposed to mitigate the spread of COVID-19 as well as other policy measures that restrict exports or affect food retail channels to consumers. This research note seeks to help the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Irrigation (MOALI) of the Government of Myanmar and agricultural sector stakeholders understand the effects of recent COVID-19 shocks on Myanmar’s agri-food marketing system through the perspective of crop traders. We conducted a phone survey with 154 crop traders to understand the challenges of COVID-19 shocks to both their upstream and downstream operations, (ii) learn about adaptations and changes they are making in response to those challenges, and (iii) track recent (two weeks) and longer-term (last year) changes in the buying and selling prices of the commodities they trade. 2020-05-01 2024-05-22T12:17:10Z 2024-05-22T12:17:10Z Brief https://hdl.handle.net/10568/143818 en my Open Access application/pdf application/pdf International Food Policy Research Institute Goeb, Joseph; Boughton, Duncan; Maredia, Mywish K.; Zu, A. Myint; and Synt, Nang Lun Kham. 2020. Monitoring the impact of COVID-19 in Myanmar: Agricultural commodity traders - May 2020 survey round. Myanmar SSP Policy Note 10. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). https://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.133792. |
| spellingShingle | movement restrictions supply chains agricultural products covid-19 commodities agricultural prices marketing trade prices Goeb, Joseph Boughton, Duncan Maredia, Mywish K. Zu, A Myint Synt, Nang Lun Kham Monitoring the impact of COVID-19 in Myanmar: Agricultural commodity traders - May 2020 survey round |
| title | Monitoring the impact of COVID-19 in Myanmar: Agricultural commodity traders - May 2020 survey round |
| title_full | Monitoring the impact of COVID-19 in Myanmar: Agricultural commodity traders - May 2020 survey round |
| title_fullStr | Monitoring the impact of COVID-19 in Myanmar: Agricultural commodity traders - May 2020 survey round |
| title_full_unstemmed | Monitoring the impact of COVID-19 in Myanmar: Agricultural commodity traders - May 2020 survey round |
| title_short | Monitoring the impact of COVID-19 in Myanmar: Agricultural commodity traders - May 2020 survey round |
| title_sort | monitoring the impact of covid 19 in myanmar agricultural commodity traders may 2020 survey round |
| topic | movement restrictions supply chains agricultural products covid-19 commodities agricultural prices marketing trade prices |
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