Food Shortages in Mindat Township

Some residents of Mindat Town in Chin State are severely short of basic food supplies and have been reduced to foraging in the forest to sustain themselves.

Filmmaker Salai Nai Hone recorded the daily struggle faced by an elderly woman living in a Mindat Township village on 28 February 2025. She has no essential food supplies like rice and salt and instead has to rely on bananas, banana stems, and edible leaves foraged from the forest.