WFP Forbidden to Buy Rice from Local Dealers
By VIOLET CHO
Wednesday, June 11, 2008, -->
An official from the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has confirmed that the Burma
By VIOLET CHO
Wednesday, June 11, 2008, -->
An official from the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has confirmed that the Burma
Local donators prepare bags of rice for cyclone survivors at a
monastery on the outskirts of Rangoon. (Photo: AP)
government has told the food relief
agency that it will no longer be permitted to buy rice from local dealers to feed survivors of
Cyclone Nargis.
“This is an issue that has come up, so we are preparing to import rice,” said WFP spokesman Paul Risley. He added, however, that the agency would “need to receive notification and approval from the government” before it could begin to import rice.
According to Risley, the WFP’s operations in Burma currently have only enough rice left to last another six weeks. The UN recently said that cyclone survivors in the hard-hit Irrawaddy delta could need food assistance for as long as a year.
Due to severe damage to rice fields and lack of farming supplies, many farmers will not be able to plant rice in time for this year’s monsoon season.
According to the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization, about 200,000 hectares, or 16 percent, of the delta’s total 1.3 million hectares of agricultural land were severely damaged in the cyclone and would “not be available for planting this season.”As UN aid agencies express concern over possible food shortages in the coming year, the Burmese military government continues to deny that the country is facing a serious problem.On Wednesday, Soe Tha, the minister for national planning and economic development, described rumors that the country’s rice supplies were inadequate as “groundless.” “Some organizations were spreading groundless information such as there was or would be a shortage of rice in Myanmar [Burma],” he was quoted in the state-run New Light of Myanmar newspaper as saying.“The rice output in the storm-affected areas in Ayeyawady [Irrawaddy] and Yangon [Rangoon] Divisions made up only 2.3 percent of the nation’s total rice output. The uncultivable acreage is barely 1 percent of that of the whole nation,” he added.Despite such reassurances, however, the regime has cancelled planned exports this year of up to 600,000 metric tons of rice to Bangladesh and Sri Lanka.The WFP has provided more than 11,000 metric tons of rice to storm-affected communities and all of this rice was bought from local rice dealers.Business sources in Rangoon suggested that the government’s decision to ban the WFP from purchasing rice from local dealers was unjustified.
“The government has a huge reserve of rice as they cancelled rice exports to Sri Lanka and Bangladesh. If the government allowed it, it could be sold,” said a Rangoon businessman.
Cyclone Nargis hit Burma in early May, killing up to 134,000 people and leaving 2.4 million destitute.
“This is an issue that has come up, so we are preparing to import rice,” said WFP spokesman Paul Risley. He added, however, that the agency would “need to receive notification and approval from the government” before it could begin to import rice.
According to Risley, the WFP’s operations in Burma currently have only enough rice left to last another six weeks. The UN recently said that cyclone survivors in the hard-hit Irrawaddy delta could need food assistance for as long as a year.
Due to severe damage to rice fields and lack of farming supplies, many farmers will not be able to plant rice in time for this year’s monsoon season.
According to the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization, about 200,000 hectares, or 16 percent, of the delta’s total 1.3 million hectares of agricultural land were severely damaged in the cyclone and would “not be available for planting this season.”As UN aid agencies express concern over possible food shortages in the coming year, the Burmese military government continues to deny that the country is facing a serious problem.On Wednesday, Soe Tha, the minister for national planning and economic development, described rumors that the country’s rice supplies were inadequate as “groundless.” “Some organizations were spreading groundless information such as there was or would be a shortage of rice in Myanmar [Burma],” he was quoted in the state-run New Light of Myanmar newspaper as saying.“The rice output in the storm-affected areas in Ayeyawady [Irrawaddy] and Yangon [Rangoon] Divisions made up only 2.3 percent of the nation’s total rice output. The uncultivable acreage is barely 1 percent of that of the whole nation,” he added.Despite such reassurances, however, the regime has cancelled planned exports this year of up to 600,000 metric tons of rice to Bangladesh and Sri Lanka.The WFP has provided more than 11,000 metric tons of rice to storm-affected communities and all of this rice was bought from local rice dealers.Business sources in Rangoon suggested that the government’s decision to ban the WFP from purchasing rice from local dealers was unjustified.
“The government has a huge reserve of rice as they cancelled rice exports to Sri Lanka and Bangladesh. If the government allowed it, it could be sold,” said a Rangoon businessman.
Cyclone Nargis hit Burma in early May, killing up to 134,000 people and leaving 2.4 million destitute.
မုန္တုိင္းေၾကာင့္ စပါးစုိက္ဧကပ်က္စီးမႈ တျပည္လုံး၏ (၆၀) ရာခုိင္ႏႈန္းရွိဟု အေမရိကန္အစိုးရမွန္း
NEJ/ ၁၂ ဇြန္ ၂၀၀၈
ျမန္မာႏုိင္ငံမွာ မုန္တုိင္းေၾကာင့္ ပ်က္စီးခဲ့သည့္ ျပည္နယ္ႏွင့္တုိင္း (၄) ခု၏ စပါးစိုက္ဧက ပ်က္စီး မႈသည္ တျပည္လုံး စပါးစုိက္ဧက၏ (၆၀) ရာႏႈန္းနီးပါးရွိသည္ဟု အေမရိကန္ လယ္ယာႏွင့္ စုိက္ပ်ိဳးေရး၀န္ႀကီးဌာန အစီရင္ခံစာတြင္ ေဖာ္ျပထားသည္။
ဧရာ၀တီ၊ ရန္ကုန္၊ ပဲခူး၊ မြန္ ျပည္နယ္ႏွင့္တုိင္း (၄) ခု၏ စပါးစိုက္ဧက ပ်က္စီးမႈသည္ ဧက (၁၀) သန္းရွိသည့္အတြက္ တျပည္လုံး စပါးစုိက္ဧက၏ (၆၀) ရာႏႈန္းနီးပါးရွိသည္ဟု ဇြန္လ (၁၀) ရက္ေန႔စြဲျဖင့္ ထုတ္ျပန္သည့္ အေမရိကန္ လယ္ယာႏွင့္စုိက္ပ်ိဳးေရး၀န္ႀကီးဌာန အစီရင္ခံစာတြင္ ေဖာ္ျပထားျခင္းျဖစ္သည္။
အေမရိကန္အစိုးရ၏ စပါးစိုက္ဧက ပ်က္စီးမႈ ခန္႔မွန္းခ်က္သည္ ျမန္မာစီးပြားေရးပညာရွင္မ်ား တြက္ခ်က္မႈႏွင့္ ကုိက္ညီေနသည္။ ျမန္မာစစ္အစ္ိုးရဘက္ကမူ စပါးစိုက္ဧက ပ်က္စီးမႈကုိ မုန္တုိင္း က်ၿပီး (၁) လေက်ာ္သည္ထိ ထုတ္ျပန္ႏုိင္ျခင္း မရွိေခ်။
ဧရာ၀တီတုိင္းႏွင့္ ရန္ကုန္တုိင္းရွိ ေရတုိ ေရရွည္ စပါးအပ်က္ႏႈန္းမွာ ပ်က္စီးမႈႏႈန္း အမ်ားဆုံးျဖစ္ၿပီး တျပည္လုံး စပါးစုိက္ဧက၏ (၃၇) ရာခုိင္ႏႈန္းရွိသည္ဟု အစီရင္ခံစာတြင္ ေဖာ္ျပထားသည္။ ဧရာ၀တီတုိင္းႏွင့္ ရန္ကုန္တုိင္းရွိ စပါးစုိက္ဧက (၆.၄) သန္းအနက္ စပါးစုိက္ဧက (၃) သန္း မုန္တိုင္းေၾကာင့္ ပင္လယ္ေရ အလႊမ္းခံခဲ့ရသည္။
ေမလ (၃၀) ရက္ထိ ေလ့လာခ်က္အရ ပင္လယ္ေရ ျပန္က်သြားသည့္တုိင္ စပါးစုိက္ဧက (၂.၇) သန္းမွာ အတုိင္းအတာတရပ္ထိ ေရက်န္ေနေသးသည္ဟုပါ အေမရိကန္ လယ္ယာႏွင့္ စုိက္ပ်ိဳး ေရး၀န္ႀကီးဌာန အစီရင္ခံစာက ေထာက္ျပထားသည္။ တနည္းဆုိရလွ်င္ မုန္တုိင္းအၿပီး တလၾကာ သည့္တိုင္ မူလက ပင္လယ္ေရလႊမ္းခဲ့သည့္ စပါးစိုက္ဧက၏ (၈၀) ရာႏႈန္း ေရက်န္ေသးသည္ဟု ေဖာ္ျပထားသည္။ ။
ျမန္မာႏုိင္ငံမွာ မုန္တုိင္းေၾကာင့္ ပ်က္စီးခဲ့သည့္ ျပည္နယ္ႏွင့္တုိင္း (၄) ခု၏ စပါးစိုက္ဧက ပ်က္စီး မႈသည္ တျပည္လုံး စပါးစုိက္ဧက၏ (၆၀) ရာႏႈန္းနီးပါးရွိသည္ဟု အေမရိကန္ လယ္ယာႏွင့္ စုိက္ပ်ိဳးေရး၀န္ႀကီးဌာန အစီရင္ခံစာတြင္ ေဖာ္ျပထားသည္။
ဧရာ၀တီ၊ ရန္ကုန္၊ ပဲခူး၊ မြန္ ျပည္နယ္ႏွင့္တုိင္း (၄) ခု၏ စပါးစိုက္ဧက ပ်က္စီးမႈသည္ ဧက (၁၀) သန္းရွိသည့္အတြက္ တျပည္လုံး စပါးစုိက္ဧက၏ (၆၀) ရာႏႈန္းနီးပါးရွိသည္ဟု ဇြန္လ (၁၀) ရက္ေန႔စြဲျဖင့္ ထုတ္ျပန္သည့္ အေမရိကန္ လယ္ယာႏွင့္စုိက္ပ်ိဳးေရး၀န္ႀကီးဌာန အစီရင္ခံစာတြင္ ေဖာ္ျပထားျခင္းျဖစ္သည္။
အေမရိကန္အစိုးရ၏ စပါးစိုက္ဧက ပ်က္စီးမႈ ခန္႔မွန္းခ်က္သည္ ျမန္မာစီးပြားေရးပညာရွင္မ်ား တြက္ခ်က္မႈႏွင့္ ကုိက္ညီေနသည္။ ျမန္မာစစ္အစ္ိုးရဘက္ကမူ စပါးစိုက္ဧက ပ်က္စီးမႈကုိ မုန္တုိင္း က်ၿပီး (၁) လေက်ာ္သည္ထိ ထုတ္ျပန္ႏုိင္ျခင္း မရွိေခ်။
ဧရာ၀တီတုိင္းႏွင့္ ရန္ကုန္တုိင္းရွိ ေရတုိ ေရရွည္ စပါးအပ်က္ႏႈန္းမွာ ပ်က္စီးမႈႏႈန္း အမ်ားဆုံးျဖစ္ၿပီး တျပည္လုံး စပါးစုိက္ဧက၏ (၃၇) ရာခုိင္ႏႈန္းရွိသည္ဟု အစီရင္ခံစာတြင္ ေဖာ္ျပထားသည္။ ဧရာ၀တီတုိင္းႏွင့္ ရန္ကုန္တုိင္းရွိ စပါးစုိက္ဧက (၆.၄) သန္းအနက္ စပါးစုိက္ဧက (၃) သန္း မုန္တိုင္းေၾကာင့္ ပင္လယ္ေရ အလႊမ္းခံခဲ့ရသည္။
ေမလ (၃၀) ရက္ထိ ေလ့လာခ်က္အရ ပင္လယ္ေရ ျပန္က်သြားသည့္တုိင္ စပါးစုိက္ဧက (၂.၇) သန္းမွာ အတုိင္းအတာတရပ္ထိ ေရက်န္ေနေသးသည္ဟုပါ အေမရိကန္ လယ္ယာႏွင့္ စုိက္ပ်ိဳး ေရး၀န္ႀကီးဌာန အစီရင္ခံစာက ေထာက္ျပထားသည္။ တနည္းဆုိရလွ်င္ မုန္တုိင္းအၿပီး တလၾကာ သည့္တိုင္ မူလက ပင္လယ္ေရလႊမ္းခဲ့သည့္ စပါးစိုက္ဧက၏ (၈၀) ရာႏႈန္း ေရက်န္ေသးသည္ဟု ေဖာ္ျပထားသည္။ ။
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