Bago Division is one among the major rice producing regions of the country. The resource endowment of this division lends itself to promote reclamation of land for agricultural purposes. A disparity in income still exists between urban and rural areas. The expanding manfacturing sector arising from the development programmes has a great impact on the level of rural income and employment.Few household-based holdings could afford to use modern labour-saving farm-machinery but a large majority continued using implements like ploughs, rotary harrows, inter-cultivators, sickle etc. Ways and means need to be found for providing farmers with improved new stranis of HYV seeds, farm machineries at affordable prices, and for inducing farmers to adopt new land-use techniques as double or multiple cropping and growing summer crops.The 1993 census of agriculture collected information on agricultural holdings and on selected agricultural activies.Efforts were needed to collect additional information on
(1) Cost of cultivation and Production, and
(2) Farm Imcome and Expenditure.
(3) On-farm and off-farm opportunities for income generation.
The information on farm income and cost of cultivation would prove extremely useful in drafting and implementing agricultural development programmes.
In order to have a complete picture of the agriculture sector in Bago Division, there is an urgent need for additional information on the following characteristics.
(1) Means used to transport agricultural produce from the holdings,
(2) Area of land provided with drainage facilities,
(3) Production data of home-based small scale productive activities like wood products (handicraft) and fish products from agricultural land holdings,
(4) Use agricultural chemicals.
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