Feature: With fewer hands at home, traveling workers play part in Myanmar's farming


  • World
  • Wednesday, 09 Jul 2025

YANGON, July 8 (Xinhua) -- As the morning sun went down on paddy fields in Myanmar's Yangon region on Tuesday, a group of women moved swiftly in ankle-deep muddy water, planting rice seedlings in perfect rows.

Their laughter rose above the distant hum of a plow machine. These women aren't from this village in Twante township of the Yangon region. They were part of a growing force of mobile female farmworkers traveling across Myanmar to fill labor gaps left by migration.

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