The Impact of Sin Tat Hydro- Electricity of River on the Livelihood of Kone Village, Kyauk-se Village Tract, Sagaing Region

The objectives of this study is to describe the socio-economic changes based on Kone Village and to explore the changes of agriculture and cow breeding of local people from 2010 to 2017. The Kone Village lies beside SagaingMonyar Highway Road. Before 2004, as Kone Village lies in the tropical zone of Central Myanmar, rain paddy is mainly grown. Then, rain water was blocked to grow such crops as millet, sesame, gram seed, cotton tree, pigeon pea and groundnut were cultivated. Thus, it seemed to be subsistence type. The native raise livestock not for cultivation but for milk. The milch cow give milk and traditional snacks such as milk rice, milk cakes, sour milk and steamed banana, etc, are made and they sell them to their neighboring villages and Mandalay. Thus, before 2010, the economic condition of natives was done by women and they had close relation with outside area. In 2004, according to the implementation of hydro-electricity of river by the government, Sin Tat hydro-electricity of river was initiated and finished in 2010. Then, in 2016, through the support of Ministry of Livestock and Fisheries, families in the village were given loans so that they could breed cows. And trainings for breeding milch cow, guiding to grow mont- par-sar grass and distributing such kind of grass have been done by Myanmar- New Zealand milch cow development project. Therefore, it will be studied how Sin Tat hydro-electricity of river supports the economic condition of the natives and develops the village. And how the local people economy will be changed and how farmer transformation will be focused on the research paper according to Sin Tat hydro-electricity of river. Ethnographic research method will be used in this research paper. Key Informant Interview and In-depth Interview will be used