Fruit plantation owners suffer a huge loss due to security concern

July 5, 2023

HURFOM: On June 15, 2023, the joint revolutionary forces announced they now control the Thanbyuzayat-Ye-Dawei Highway Road. Soon after that announcement, the military junta increased their military operations in Southern Ye Township. Junta’s troops have established bases from Maw Ka Nin to R Yu Taung villages in Ye Township.

Armed clashes have frequently taken place in Southern Ye Township, leaving local fruit plantation owners unable to go to their plantations. Many have now abandoned their plantations.

“About one-third of our durians are left to harvest. And there are mangosteens and rambutans to be harvested for the second time. Plantation owners dare not go to their plantation. They are afraid to stay (and work) at their plantations. So all plantations have been abandoned,” said a durian plantation owner in eastern Maw Ka Nin village, Ye Township.

Plantation owners are facing a huge financial loss.

“The economy of Ye has depended on fruit plantations. Now, we can’t go to the fruit plantation so our livelihoods are being destroyed. We have a bad economy and a high commodity price so we’ll surely be in trouble,” said a plantation owner from Sone Na Thar village, Southern Ye Township.

Burmese soldiers and other thieves pluck fruits from nearby plantations without permission from the owners.

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