Some traders say sales are down by more than half over the same period last year.
The managing director of Shu San Trading Enterprise, U San Win, told the Myanmar Times he was selling about 1,000 bags of fertilizer a day. Last year he was selling between 2,000 to 5,000 bags a day. The manager of the Let Yway Zin Family Trading Company, U Htun Oo, and U Mating Thein of Aung Myintta Warehouse also reported weak sales. U Maung Thein said sales were down by nearly half on the 20,000 bags a month his company sold -last year. The three State-owned fertilizer factories in Myanmar, which distribute their MPE brand products under a quota system, cannot meet the needs of the farming sector.