As part of the project titled “Enhancing Rural Livelihoods and Income Project(ERLIP)” implementing in Bokepyin of Tanitharyi region in collaboration with the Department of Rural Development(DRD) and the Asian Development Bank(ADB), ALARM with technical assistance of the Department of Research and Innovation(DRI) conducted a research on the effectiveness of dehydration chamber for ripe betel (areca) nut. The study aimed to demonstrate how the period for dehydration of betel nut could be effectively reduced by using permanent and small-scale sun-dry chamber, to get good quality betel pulp, to improve the livelihoods of the local community by selling the good quality betel pulp, to initiate a solar dehydration chamber model for the local farmers, to be able to test for not only betel nut drying but also other crops .The model was tested and demonstrated in Bokepyin and found that the model was useful and helped reduce at least 50% of time for dehydration.