There are three foreign companies, one from Japan, one from Australia and one from Thailand. The earliest one Myanmar Tasaki Company has finished first commercial scale harvest in 2001.Since then the company has been producing finest quality pearls annually.Myanmar Tasaki company specializes to produce pinkish silver colour pearls. The pearl sizes are from 9 to 17 millimetres.
The second one, Myanmar Atlantic company has conducted first commercial scale harvest in 2003.The company is also producing finest quality pearls every year. Myanmar Atlantic company specializes to produce deep gold pearls.
The local joint venture company, the Orient Pearl has harvested over 20000 pieces of pearls from the hatchery bred oysters in August,2005.The colours of the pearls included about 20% deep gold and 20% silver pink.
There are four hatcheries in Myanmar. Now, ninety percent of the production is from hatchery bred oysters.
In farming, latest know-how and unpolluted water incorporating with strong healthy Myanmar Pinctada maxima oysters, we are producing historically famous Myanmar South Sea pearls.
In marketing, foreign buyers are welcome to visit and buy pearl at reasonable prices, whole year round.
