Myanmar
East-West Seed became Myanmar’s first fully registered international vegetable seed company in 2009. Intensive farmer training programs since 2000 as a core part of its business model. This is implemented through EWS Knowledge Transfer (a non-profit foundation), which started in Myanmar in 2012. To enable wider outreach, we leverage additional resources from its synergic partnerships with Swiss Contact (2014-2016), Advance Consulting and Wageningen University Plant Research and Netherlands Enterprise Agency (RVO) for capacity building to private, NGO and government extension staff and faculty of State Agricultural Institute ( 2017-2020), Australian Government’s Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) and Mennonite Economic Development Association (MEDA, 2017-2020). EWS-KT will apply lessons learned from the FLF model from that project. EWS-KT will also draw from its experience in introducing mung beans to local farmers from its partnership with ICCO Cooperation and DaNa Facility (2017-2020). Further, EWS-KT will leverage existing experience and networks from its partnership with DaNa Facility and Mercy Corps (2018-2020) that focuses on skills building for smallholders and catalyses market development in Rakhine.
Locations of activities
- Naypyitaw
- Kayin
- Mon
- Shan
- Rakhine
Team capacities
- 20 Employees
Number of farmers trained since 2015
- 71,413
Number of field demonstrations
- 3,342
Track record
- Click here to see EWS-KT track record in Myanmar
Resources on our activities in Myanmar:
- Opportunities for Myanmar’s vegetable sector
- Agribusiness in ASEAN: Making the case for smallholder inclusion
- Making vegetable markets work for smallholders in Myanmar
- Transforming Rakhine’s vegetable markets
- Creating new markets for seeds and vegetables in Kayin, Myanmar
