YANGON, July 4 (Xinhua) -- Myanmar's Ministry of Cooperatives and Rural Development has been planning to implement development projects in 458 villages during the 2025-26 fiscal year, with a budget of 6.87 billion kyats (about 3.27 million U.S. dollars), the state-owned Myanmar Radio and Television reported on Friday.

The villages will be selected based on factors such as transportation, security situation, the report said.

Since the 2015-16 fiscal year, the ministry has implemented development projects in more than 19,000 villages, it said.

There are over 63,000 villages across Myanmar, with development projects carried out in over 30 percent, it added. ■