Myanmar People and Races
Kokant
The Kokant ethnic group is found to be locating
in Panlon and Laukkai in northern Shan State. In
1997, our government encourage them to grow sugar
cane and durian a substituted crops for poppy
plantation. The durian planted in the area is now
exported to China.
Since, buckwheat plantation had been introduced
for some years. Kokant nationals are planting
buckwheat now as substitution for poppy plantation.
In the villages, Kokant nationals earn surplus
income mainly from shoes manufacturing, traditional
rain coat manufacturing made from a kind of bear.
Kokant traditionally worship the source of their
ancestor. The Nat Saya tells their future by using
the bones of chickens.
Due to the cultivation of buckwheat in sugarcane
as substitution and the establishment of factories,
the problems of unemployment had been solved. That
is why their socio-economic life has been improved.
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