Myanmar has long been a major supplier of live cattle to countries in the Greater Mekong subregion, including Yunnan Province in China, which has seen a sustained rise in income per capita but has relatively scarce grazing land. After a few months of fattening, some of Myanmar’s cattle had been re-exported to China via Thailand and Laos, but in recent years, with improvements in transportation and the reduced need for draft animals in farming households, China has started buying cattle directly from Myanmar.
