The depletion of rice stocks in Arakan

Monday, 30 July 2018

These days, the lost Arakan to Myanmar in western Myanmar feels a bit like threat of widespread depletion of food after Myanmar’s traders purchased all kind of rice and took them to majority Myanmar or Burma region.

Therefore, lack of food during long period of time in the region seemed that people were famished but nothing to eat.

With the increase in prices of rough and good quality rice in the last month reached record high, never before in history except  in 1963s. In that year, Arakanese people had to starve and died and did not have sufficient food to eat. Because, all the rice were taken by Burmese government to their region. Hence, Arakanese people came out from their dying beds of homes to the streets to demand and protest. They demanded to distribute rice and chanted slogan “ Arakan’s rice is for Arakan” . Myanmar government atrociously and brutally fired over  500 shots into people procession. Over 300 Arakanese people mostly youths were massacred on the streets of their beloved city by Myanmar or Burma

government.

Nowadays, Myanmar are buying ,in luring way ,huge quantity of rice from Arakan to their region again.

Consequently, the price of paw san rice reached Ks 44,000 per bag in this month, up from  Ks 33,000 per bag and the price of Monsoon and summer rice are unstable in the rice market.

In the lost Arakan to Myanmar, besides fishery , paddy is mainly cultivated that rice production is not only enough for its own people but also able to sell beyond the territory. But, Government of Myanmar intentionally does not allow Arakanese farmers  to sell rice to international market and set their own organization which can only export rice to foreign. Arakanese rice traders are just to sell their rice to Burmese men at low price.

Burmese rice traders trading under the Government of Myanmar  mercilessly and greedily exploiting by  buying more and more quantity of rice at low price from Arakanese farmers and distributing once to those rice in the very much rare rice region of Burma or Myanmar and also selling to foreign . Arakanese rice traders are not allowed to sell their rice to abroad under the law of Myanmar  government.