Minister for Planning & Co-ordination, Land Revenue and Parliamentary Affairs Neiba Kronu along with advisors for Water Resources Namri Nchang and Dr. Longrineken Treasuries & Accounts, National Highways toured Myanmar and Laos from August 19 to 27 to study the method of coffee plantation in Myanmar and in Laos for tourism and infrastructure promotion in the state.
A press release from OSD Planning and Co-ordination, Thomas Thailu stated that Kronu along with his team visited the Sithar coffee plantation area, situated in the Shan mountain region of Mandalay Myanmar. They held interaction with the executive director Sithar coffee farm Tin Tinwin, and the team requested Tin Tinwin to support for coffee seedling for the state of Nagaland as the topography and temperature in Nagaland was like Shan region. Kronu and team encouraged the farmers of the state into coffee farming in large scale so that the state revenue would increase into many folds in next few years.
Minister along with the team also visited Laos, a land logged country to study how coffee plantation, tourism and infrastructure was implemented in their country. In Laos, Kronu and team visited Luang Prabang a UNESCO town which is maintained by United Nation for Educational and Scientific Organization (UNESCO) under world heritage to study the country and town planning system.
In order to discourage the farmers from growing opium the United Nations on Drugs & Crime (UNODC) encouraged the people of Myanmar into coffee plantation for better earning and living in the Shan mountain region which was first planted in 2014.
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