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Salt Production: New Techniques For Higher & Quality Production

Salt production in lower and western Myanmar are about to get a boost after foreign experts and the Small and Medium Enterprises Development Department held a training on up-to-date techniques designed to bolster production and quality. 

Salt producers learned new technologies and techniques in producing superior salt at a workshop with Dutch experts on Friday. 

It followed a short training on salt production by PUM Netherlands senior experts in Mon and Rakhine States in the early weeks of May.

Deputy Director, SMEs Devt’ Dep.(Ministry of Industry), Mu Mu Aye: We invited an expert from PUM Netherlands to share technology of salt production for salt producers in Mon and Rakhine states so that they can produce marketable and quality salt. Together with that expert, we visited salt farms in Mon and Rakhine states and shared technology by teaching theoretical and practical approaches.

The salt industry in Myanmar is challenged with a couple of difficulties, including the high moisture content of salt produced locally due to lack of appropriate technology used in production. 

Myanmar is importing 40,000 to 50,000 tons of salt yearly in order to maintain the annual local demand of 200,000 tons. Producers say if they were able to apply the technologies taught in this training, importing salt may no longer be necessary in the future.

Chairman, Salt Industry Association ( Mon State), Win Htein: Although technologies they shared during the short time are not very difficult, they are really useful. We thought we knew some of them already but we didn’t understand that much until they explained them. Now, we’ve gotten to know how to produce quality salt and how to be more productive. We’ve also learnt how to remove harmful elements in salt production, like magnesium without having to spend that much. 

Currently, Ayeyarwady Region is the biggest salt producer in Myanmar, followed by Mon and Rakhine States. 

 

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