Monitoring the agri-food system in Myanmar: Mechanization Service Providers – July 2024 survey round

Agricultural mechanization service providers (MSPs) are crucial for enabling smallholder farmers to undertake a range of power-intensive farm and post-harvest operations in a timely manner. These operations are essential for food production and farm income. MSPs are capital-intensive operations. The...

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Main Author: Myanmar Agrifood Program for Strategy and Analysis
Format: Brief
Language:Inglés
Published: International Food Policy Research Institute 2024
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Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/152351
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description Agricultural mechanization service providers (MSPs) are crucial for enabling smallholder farmers to undertake a range of power-intensive farm and post-harvest operations in a timely manner. These operations are essential for food production and farm income. MSPs are capital-intensive operations. The economic viability of these businesses is highly sensitive to (1) capacity utilization, which generates the cash flow needed to repay equipment loans; (2) prices of imported capital goods, including machines, equipment, and fuels; and (3) availability of machine operators, among others. Hence, the operations of MSPs are sensitive to restrictions on mobility and trade. This Research Note focuses on the impacts of the ongoing political crisis on MSPs from the latest phone survey conducted in July 2024. This note primarily covers the activities of tractor service providers (TSPs) in the 2024 monsoon planting season and combine harvester service providers (CHSPs) that completed harvesting from the dry season. The results of previous rounds were published in Myanmar Strategy Support Program Research Notes 07, 12, 17, 39, 43, 59, 62, 76, 82 94, and 98. As MSP operations continue to be affected by market disruptions, understanding the situation on the ground is critical to support measures to ensure farmers’ access to MSP services.
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spelling CGSpace1523512025-12-08T10:11:39Z Monitoring the agri-food system in Myanmar: Mechanization Service Providers – July 2024 survey round Myanmar Agrifood Program for Strategy and Analysis agricultural mechanization harvesters smallholders surveys Agricultural mechanization service providers (MSPs) are crucial for enabling smallholder farmers to undertake a range of power-intensive farm and post-harvest operations in a timely manner. These operations are essential for food production and farm income. MSPs are capital-intensive operations. The economic viability of these businesses is highly sensitive to (1) capacity utilization, which generates the cash flow needed to repay equipment loans; (2) prices of imported capital goods, including machines, equipment, and fuels; and (3) availability of machine operators, among others. Hence, the operations of MSPs are sensitive to restrictions on mobility and trade. This Research Note focuses on the impacts of the ongoing political crisis on MSPs from the latest phone survey conducted in July 2024. This note primarily covers the activities of tractor service providers (TSPs) in the 2024 monsoon planting season and combine harvester service providers (CHSPs) that completed harvesting from the dry season. The results of previous rounds were published in Myanmar Strategy Support Program Research Notes 07, 12, 17, 39, 43, 59, 62, 76, 82 94, and 98. As MSP operations continue to be affected by market disruptions, understanding the situation on the ground is critical to support measures to ensure farmers’ access to MSP services. 2024-09-23 2024-09-23T15:20:31Z 2024-09-23T15:20:31Z Brief https://hdl.handle.net/10568/152351 en https://hdl.handle.net/10568/140257 https://hdl.handle.net/10568/140256 https://hdl.handle.net/10568/140965 https://hdl.handle.net/10568/140964 Open Access application/pdf International Food Policy Research Institute Myanmar Agrifood Program for Strategy and Analysis (MAPSA). 2024. Monitoring the agri-food system in Myanmar: Mechanization Service Providers – July 2024 survey round. Myanmar SSP Research Note 112. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute. https://hdl.handle.net/10568/152351
spellingShingle agricultural mechanization
harvesters
smallholders
surveys
Myanmar Agrifood Program for Strategy and Analysis
Monitoring the agri-food system in Myanmar: Mechanization Service Providers – July 2024 survey round
title Monitoring the agri-food system in Myanmar: Mechanization Service Providers – July 2024 survey round
title_full Monitoring the agri-food system in Myanmar: Mechanization Service Providers – July 2024 survey round
title_fullStr Monitoring the agri-food system in Myanmar: Mechanization Service Providers – July 2024 survey round
title_full_unstemmed Monitoring the agri-food system in Myanmar: Mechanization Service Providers – July 2024 survey round
title_short Monitoring the agri-food system in Myanmar: Mechanization Service Providers – July 2024 survey round
title_sort monitoring the agri food system in myanmar mechanization service providers july 2024 survey round
topic agricultural mechanization
harvesters
smallholders
surveys
url https://hdl.handle.net/10568/152351
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