Livestock food specialist Sunjin said on the 24th that its Myanmar subsidiary's feed sales last year reached about 220,000 tons, up about 27% from a year earlier.
Since the military took power in 2021, Myanmar has been cited as a market with high uncertainty in the business environment due to political instability, civil war, a major earthquake in 2025, and power shortages. As infrastructure and logistics conditions wobble, maintaining a stable production and supply system has emerged as a key competitive task for corporations.
Sunjin entered Myanmar in 2014 and expanded its local production base by completing a second feed plant in the Mandalay region in 2023.
Even in this environment, Sunjin Myanmar Co., Ltd. increased feed sales by about 50,000 tons last year from the previous year, continuing its growth.
A local workforce–centered operating system is cited as the driver of growth. Of Sunjin Myanmar's 411 total employees, most are local workers except for four Korean employees, and key middle-management roles are also held by local staff. Local employees closely track market changes and farm demand and reflect them in business strategy and decision-making.
It also strengthened responses to raw material sourcing and power shortages. As feed raw material import regulations tightened, it continued consultations with government agencies to secure stability in raw material supplies, and it has been replacing some imported inputs with locally procurable ones to reduce production disruptions. By building an energy response system that includes solar power facilities and an energy storage system (ESS), it is reducing the impact of unstable power supply.
Sunjin recently completed the acquisition of CJ Feed Myanmar Company Limited, which owns livestock infrastructure such as a feed plant, a grandparent stock farm, and a hatchery. Through this acquisition, it secured a Yangon-area plant with an annual feed production capacity of 60,000 tons and expanded its capability to supply existing feed and day-old chicks (DOC).
Based on this, Sunjin plans to enhance its responsiveness to the local market and its supply capabilities and to strengthen its business base in Myanmar's livestock market this year.