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What are the main products of Myanmar?

1, wood carving

Myanmar's wood carving is very famous, the most precious to be carved from teak, black wood, and rosewood, such valuable materials from the crafts, the body and wood grain texture is natural, coupled with the carver to quiet, complete inner world to face the life to create, giving the wood carving full of vitality.

2, jadeite

Burmese jadeite referred to as Myanmar Jade, the market commercial grade jadeite jade more than 95% from Burma, jadeite also known as Burma Jade, and therefore will be Burma Jade as a jadeite synonymous.

The main importing country of jadeite is China, the jadeite production of Myanmar Meng Gong, Myitkyina area, only 150 kilometers away from China's Yunnan border, in the Ming Dynasty, during the Wanli period, this place once belonged to the jurisdiction of the Yongchang Province (present-day Baoshan City, Yunnan Province). Due to historical reasons, known as the "jewel of the Orient" jadeite through the Yunnan Tengchong, Ruili and other border towns imported into our country, has a history of four or five hundred years.

3, lacquer ware

Myanmar lacquer ware is famous for its exquisite style and exquisite workmanship. According to historical records, the production of lacquer ware originated in Burma between the 12th and 13th centuries. A large number of local craftsmen are engaged in making lacquer ware, which is a traditional handicraft. Despite the complexity of the process of making lacquer ware, in the eyes of the Burmese laborers, they are works of art with a variety of styles and unique characteristics.

4. Forest Resources

The forest cover was 41% in 2010, mainly in the north, west and south. The central Bago mountain range is the main production area of teak. There are 2,300 forestry species in Myanmar, including more than 1,200 species of trees. 60% of the world's teak reserves and 75% of the teak on the international market are produced in Myanmar.

Myanmar is also rich in sandalwood, shrubs, chicken wings, ironwood, sourwood, rosewood and other kinds of hardwoods and valuable hardwoods, hardwoods potential annual output of about 1.3 million tons, in addition, Myanmar also has rich resources of bamboo and rattan, bamboo species of 97 kinds of bamboo forests covering an area of 9,630 square kilometers, mainly in the Rakhine, Myanmar Central Region, rattan 32 kinds of rattan, the annual output of about 76 million roots, mainly distributed in the Kachin and Shan States, with water rattan and red rattan, some for export.

5, agriculture, forestry, animal husbandry and fisheries

Agriculture is the foundation of the national economy, the arable land area of about 18 million hectares, there are still more than 4 million hectares of vacant land to be developed, the value of agricultural output accounted for about 40% of the gross national product, the main crops are rice, wheat, maize, peanuts, sesame seeds, cotton, beans, sugarcane, oil palm, tobacco and jute, etc., the data from the ministry of commerce of Myanmar shows that the Myanmar exported 1.5 million tons of rice in the 2015/2016 fiscal year, with total agricultural exports amounting to $2.5 billion.