A STUDY TO UPGRADE THE LIFESTYLE OF FISHERMEN COMMUNITY IN MYANMAR

Myanmar has plenty of natural resources and enough water resources. These precious resources perform well in country economy development. As a consequence annual growth rate of GDP is gradually increased year by year. Similarly fishery sector became sharply increased in finding the national income and support for the enough domestic consumption. The development of fishery sector has increased, however the rural communities depending on the fishery is still lag behind in development. This paper focuses on the development of lifestyle of this fishermen community in Myanmar. To give the transparency recommendations, a sample survey was implemented in the main fishery rural area and revealed the requirements and weak point of this rural community from this main fishery area. The major portions lags behind in development are education, social welfare and so on. The main objective of this study is to upgrade the lifestyle of rural fishermen community, exploring the weak points and their requirements through this study. i