YANGON,
Oct. 18 (Xinhua) -- Myanmar Vice President Dr. Sai Mauk Kham has called for
efforts in narrowing gap between urban and rural areas in a bid to reduce
poverty rate down to 16 percent in 2015 to meet the United Nations' Millennium
Development Goal, a state media reported Tuesday.
Addressing a meeting of the Rural Development
and Poverty Alleviation Work Committee in Nay Pyi Taw Monday, Sai stressed the
need to carry out the tasks up to December 2015 in line with the 10 work
programs worked out for poverty alleviation, said the New Light of Myanmar.
He emphasized the need to extensively grow crops
which are favorable to regional climate, drawing farm activities and non- farm
activities programs for rural people.
He maintained that one village one product
program and rural industrialization program play an important role in
implementing the non-farm activities, stressing the need to supply raw
material, electricity and smooth transportation for development of small- scale
industries .
He also stressed development of micro-credit
scheme for vendors, hawkers and daily-waged workers as well as development of
cooperatives societies to gain confidence from the people.
Other calls include development of
socio-economic life of rural people with priority given to education, health,
transportation, safe drinking water and irrigation.
Moreover, production of energy from biogas and
environmental conservation were also encouraged.
Myanmar has started its poverty alleviation
efforts with rural areas in some townships across the country with regional
work committees at different level being set up for the implementation.
Model farms are being projected to be
established to speed up the process of mechanized farming along with integrated
farms and micro producing enterprises village-wise, providing micro finance for
successful formation of private micro finance institutions, improving
education, health and social affairs to improve the socio-economic status of
the rural people.
Managable scale production of energy such as
bio-gas and solar energy for adequate energy supply to rural areas, prevention
of deforestation and afforestation of bare land for environmental conservation
are also covered by the tasks.
Myanmar's new government has formed the
Central Committee for Rural Development and Poverty Alleviation to monitor
tasks for rural development and poverty alleviation with foundation in
transport, supply of clean and irrigation water, education, health and economy
in rural areas and the committee is now in pursuant of eight tasks to achieve
the goal.
In accordance with the target set for 2015 by
the UN Millennium Development Goals, the Myanmar government is giving high
priority to poverty reduction and rural development scheme despite the decrease
of Myanmar's poverty rate from 32 percent in 2004-05 to 26 percent in 2009-10.
Myanmar is yet to strive for further bringing
down the country' s poverty rate by 16 percent by 2014-15 from 26 percent in
2009-10 in accordance with the UN Millennium Development Goal.
Of Myanmar's total population of bout 60
million, 70 percent live in rural areas.
The government claimed that it is heading for
its fifth five- year plan (2011-12 to 2015-16) for national economic
development, setting an annual target of 10.5-percent economic growth for the
fiscal year 2011-12 which started in April.
Editor:Luo Yuan
Xinhua
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