Farmers in Myanmar’s Shan state have complained that their businesses are being undercut by cheaper potatoes smuggled in from nearby China, causing them serious financial losses, RFA reported.

Potatoes are prohibited from regular border trade under measures to protect local growers, but Chinese traders are still able to export them illegally into Myanmar, prompting farmers to urge authorities to take measures to stop the activity.

Potato farmers want the government to shut down the illegal Chinese potato imports to Myanmar, said Aung Chan Aye, a potato trader at Yangon’s Bayint Naung Wholesale Centre.