(1) 2,016,140 acres in Magwe Division were distirbuted among 379,526 holdings;99.89% of total holding area were household-based land holdings. The majority of these holdings 59.09% were small farms unmder 5 acres in size, and only 0.02% were large farms extending over 50 acres. Among special land holdings, 52.17% were 50 acres and above in size.
(2) 90.04% of holders were males and only 9.96% were females. 95.40% of all holders had formal schooling indicating their capability to adopt improved techniques of production and to be responsive to effective extension services. 79.19% of holders worked permanently on holdings. 42.86% of land holders had other sources of income.
(3) 43.31% of all holdings employed paid worders, 452.93% employed occasional workers, and only d3.35%
employed permanent workers. A large portion of labour input was supplied by farm families. Among paid workers, the number of occasional workers was as much as 13 times greater than that of the permanent workers.
Special holdings however employed a comapratively larger percentage of hired labour; paid workers 47.83%, permanent workers 60.87% and occasional workers 78.26%.
(4) A larger percentage of special land holdings used machinery and equipment than did household-based land holdings. 34.78% of special land holdings used water pumps, 26.09% used tractors, 17.39% used generator/motors, 4.35% used huller machines, 13.04% used power tillers, and 4.35% used other farm machinery. Among household-based land holdings, 0.23% of holdings used machinery and equipment other than huller machines, power tillers and tractors. 4.23% of household-based holdings used huller machine. Larger farms had the advantage to adopt modern farm machinery.
(5) Acomparatively larger percentage of special land holdings used agricultural chemicals, 60.87% used inorganid fertilizers, and 73.91% used organic fertilizers. The same is true with the use of pesticides and HYV seeds; 73.91% and 56.52% used pesticides and HYV respectively seeds. As in the case of capital inputs, large farms benefitted from the used of new technical knownhow and modern methods of cultivation.
(6) 21.79% of all land holdings used irrigation. Rivers, Creeks and canals were the important sources of irrigation; they provided irrigation to 89.72% of houdehold-based land holdings. However, goverment cannals provided irrigation to 50% of the special holdings.
(7) 68.17% of the total all holding area were Yar land, 22.66% were Paddy land, and a small percentage 6.74% were Kaing. Among special holdings, 40.22% of the holding area were Yar land.
(8) 46.61% of total sown area by householdd-based land holdings grew industrial crops, and 59.71% of total sown area by special holdings grew pulses. For household-based land holdings, the second most important crop sown was cereals, paddy was the main crop sown.
57.52% of household-based land holdings, and 83.33% of special holdings grew fruits and nuts. But in terms of total productive area, 4.79% of household-based land holdings grew industrial permanent crops.
(9) 97.16% of all land holdings used draught animals. Regarding cattle and buffaloes, 84.92% of household-based land holdings owned cattle, and only 4.55% owned buffaloes. The extensive use of animal power seemed to reflect that further efforts were needed to modernize the existing mode of agricultural production.
(10) The average size of an agricultural holding was 5.58 acres. The average size of an agricultural household was 5. About one in every 2 household-based holdings had other sources of income. The average number of parcels per household-based land holding was 2.8, and the average size of a parcel was 1.99 acres. The average cultivation intensity was found to be 1.45. The proportion of land left fallow was about 0.05.
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