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Due to various reasons, farmers nowadays are leaving their farm and became migrant workers, according to the questions asked to farmers’ environment. Land confiscation, high cost in expenditure for cultivation, low cost for the yield crops, small production due to poor technology in farming, climatic changes and scarcity of cattle are some of the reasons why farmers leave their leave their farm to become migrant workers. 70 percent of Myanmar’s population is depending on the agriculture but declining in various sectors forced them to become migrant workers. Some experts hope that if foreign investment comes to the agriculture sector, the business will develop again. At present, the foreign investment in agriculture sector is only one percent of total investment of entire Myanmar.
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Myanmar, farmers, migrant workers, cultivation, agriculture, farm income, foreign investment, land confiscation
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