In the remote western Chin state, Ngite Pan, 46, ekes out an existence, feeding herself and her 15-year-old daughter by planting millet. Occasionally, she sells a traditional intoxicating brew called Khaung-Yay, also made from millet, which earns her about US$4 a month. It is the widow?s only source of income, and most of this money is spent on buying rice to supplement the millet - but it is not enough.