Potato prices in Myanmar drop by nearly half

In areas such as Binlang, Naudya, and Diki in southern Shan State, the price of potatoes has dropped by about half compared to before, leaving farmers facing a severe situation where they cannot even recover their costs. A potato farmer from Naudya said helplessly that they invested a lot of water, fertilizer, labor and other costs in the process of planting potatoes, but now the price of potatoes is low and they cannot even recover these costs. It is understood that the previous price of potatoes was 4,000 to 4,500 Myanmar Kyats per pull, but now it can only be sold for about 2,000 Myanmar Kyats. Such a price gap has undoubtedly brought huge economic losses to farmers. In Binlang, Naudya, and Aungban, ...