Monitoring the impact of COVID-19 in Myanmar: Urban food retailers - Late July 2020 survey round

Agricultural input retailers play a key role in Myanmar’s agri-food system by supplying farmers with fertilizer, seed, pesticides, and other inputs necessary for successful harvests. Because farm-level input use is an important driver of yields for all major food crops, shocks to the input retail sector have major implications both for rural household welfare and for national food security. Phone interviews were conducted with 221 input retailers in the regions or states of Shan, Kachin, Bago, Ayeyarwady, Sagaing, and Mandalay between 21 and 23 May 2020 in order to better understand how the agricultural input retail sector in Myanmar has been affected by the COVID-19 crisis.