Recommendation
The economy of Myanmar is still predominantly agricultural. Agriculture accounts
for nearly 40% of GDP, and provides employment to about 65% of the total workforce.
The agricultural sector, besides meeting domestic food requirement, it also produces a
sizeable surplus for exprot. The recent increse in paddy production has been achieved
mainly through higher yields rather than expanded acreage. The current drive of the
government is to ensure self-sufficiency in food-production, guarantee raw materials
for local agro-based manufacturing industires, and if possible, to increase the
export volume of agricultural produce.
Sagaing Division is one among the major rice producing regions of the country.
The resource endowment of this division lends ifself to promote agricultural
production through irrigation.
The 1993 census of agriculture collectecd information on agricultural holdings and
on selected agricultural activities. Efforts were needed to collect additional
information on
(1) Cost of Cultivation and Production and
(2) Farm Income and Expenditure
The information on farm income and cost of cultivation would prove extremely
useful in drafting and implementing agricultural development programmes.
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