Myanmar plans to export 24 containers of brooms to South Korea

Myanmar will export 24 containers of brooms to South Korea this financial year, according to an official from Yangon Region General Trading Co-operative Union.
The organization also exported brooms that carry the note “Made in Myanmar” to the ROK since the 2022-2023 financial year and nearly two containers are being exported every month. A 40-feet container can carry nearly 35,000 brooms and about 840,000 are scheduled to be exported in 24 containers.
“The brooms are made with traditional methods using raw materials from broom grass (Thysanolaena) that naturally grow in forests. They win the foreign market because they can attract overseas buyers more than plastic brooms manufactured employing modern technologies,” said U Tin Myint, General Secretary of the Yangon Region General Trading Co-operative Union on 30 August.
Most of the brooms exported to ROK are manufactured by a cooperative in Shwepyitha township, Yangon Region. More cooperative firms will be formed in Hmawby and Taikkyi townships where most raw materials are available, to extend the business.
The brooms are currently exported to Malaysia, India and Thailand other than South Korea. The raw materials to make brooms are bought from Hmawby, Taikkyi townships in Yangon Region, Bago Region, Nay Pyi Taw and Rakhine State. — ASH/TH