This paper focuses on the relationship between market information and the level rice prices received by small-scale farmers in the Magway region of Myanmar. Using household-level data, we estimate this relationship based on a search cost model. The study extends previous literature by distinguishing between price information and other types of market information. The relationship between different information types and farm-gate prices received are estimated econometrically. We find a positive relationship between non-price information received from TV sources and the rice price received by farmers. However, other sources of information, including price information, show no statistically significant relationship with rice prices received by farmers. The results indicate there is a relationship between access to TV information and higher rice prices received, but we were not able to determine whether the information allows farmers to gain higher prices or farmers that get higher prices were able to access TV services better. (i.e., the direction of causality could not be determined).
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