With growing global population, every nation has to produce 70% more food by 2050. Myanmar with “natural” infrastructures for agriculture has the shortest food miles to serve 3 billion people around her. With those potentials, Ko Kyaw Thu Htet will talk about how Myanmar can leapfrog and build “technical” infrastructures along agri-food chain to leverage on the issues in hand and turn them into opportunities to become a food production powerhouse to feed Asia. With education backgrounds of Information Technology and Biotechnology in Singapore, Kyaw Thu Htet returned to Myanmar and founded MILS as a sustainable animal health company to manufacture probiotics to reduce the use of antibiotic in livestock industry. Today, he is leading MILS with a bigger vision of making the agri-food chain safer and more sustainable with innovative products and services. At TEDxUM1, he will talk about shaping Myanmar to become a food production powerhouse to feed the growing population in the region. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx