"The finding was revealed during workshop organised by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) in Yangon on Thursday. Machinery such as combine harvester were hardly used in 2013, but by 2016, half of all rice farms used them so farming is mechanising quickly according to the study research. US Ambassador to Myanmar Scot Marciel attended the workshop titled Agriculture,Value Chains and Rural Transformation in Myanmar . “The United States is committed to supporting Myanmar’s economic transformation and democratic transition. For Myanmar, that means working to help transform the agricultural sector, a source of livelihood for more than seventy percent of rural households,” Marciel said in a speech for the workshop. Participants reviewed finding from surveys of close to 8000 rural households, 800 communities and more than 1150 enterprises in agricultural value chains in eight states and regions, including Mon,the delta and dry zones and Shan..."