Agricultural, Infrastructure, and Research Projects inspected in PutaO

KACHIN State Chief Minis­ter U Khet Htein Nan con­ducted a field inspection tour in northern Myanmar’s PutaO District yesterday to support local food security, regional development, and agriculture.

 

In PutaO’s Panhlaing Ward, the Chief Minister vis­ited a commercial fish farm operating across more than three acres. Supported by K60 million from the State Economic Promotion Fund, the project features nine ponds raising over 2,000 fish across several species. He coordinated plans with fish­ery officials to expand pond capacity and encourage more local entrepreneurs to take up commercial aq­uaculture. He then inspect­ed the Shwe Taung noodle industry, which used fund loans to upgrade machin­ery for instant rice noodle production, and coordinated with department officials to facilitate market access.

 

Later in the after­noon, the Chief Minister met with local farmers and department officials near Sangaung Village to address flood and erosion damage caused by the Pateik stream. To safe­guard more than 900 acres of rain-fed paddy fields and the PutaO-Upper Sangaung roadway, they coordinated plans to repair the San­gaung and Nankanto di­version weirs using local traditional methods and reviewed the Department of Highways’ plan to con­struct a 580-foot retaining wall. Concluding the tour, he inspected cold-water fish breeding, conservation, and research activities at the PutaO Livestock Research Camp. — State IPRD/ST