(1) 301,417 acres in Tanintharyi Division were distributed among 56,222 holdings;
(89.21%) of total holdings. A majority of the land holdings (63.43%) was small farms
under 5 acres in size, and only 0.23% were large frams extending over 50 acres; but
the holding size of special land holdings, were 50 acres and above in size.
(2)86.40% of holders were males and only 13.60% were females; 91.48% of all holders
had formal schooling indicating their capability to adopt improved techinques
of production and to be responsive to effective extension services. 61.32% of holders
worked permanently on holdings 66.76% of land holders had other sources of income.
(3) 29.51% of all holdings employed paid workers, 28.09% employed occasional workers, and
only 5.73% 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 5
times greater than that of the permanent workers.
Special holdings however employed a comparatively larger percentage of hired labour, paid
workers (66.67%), permanent workers (83.33%) and occasional workers (83.33%).
(4) A larger percentage of special land holdings used machinery and equipment than did
household-based land holdings. 66.67% of special land holdings used water pumps, 43.75%
used tractors, 50.00% used generator/ motors,6.25% used huller machines, 75.00% used power
tillers, and 50.00% used other farm machinery. Among household-based land holdings, 0.11% of
holdings used machinery and equipment other than huller machines, power tillers and tractors.
34.71% of household-based holdings used huller machine. Large farms had the advantage to adopt
modern farm machinery.
(5) A comparatively larger percentage of special land holdings used agricultural chemicals,
68.75% used inorganic fertilizers, and 37.50% used organic fertilizers. The same is true
with the use of pesticides and HYV seeds; 56.25% used pesticides and 25.00% HYV seeds.As in
the case of capital inputs, large farms benifitted from the use of new techical know-how
and modern methods of cultivation.
(6) Only 1.20% of land holdings used irrigation. Own wells, rivers, creeks and canals were the
important sources of irrigation;they provided irrigation to 86.19% of household-based land
holdings.
(7) 45.94% of the total area was paddy land, 31.57% was garden land, and 16.45% was rubber land.
(8) 99.14% of total area sown by household-based land holdings, and 97.86% of total area sown
area by special holdings were under cereals. For household-based land holdings, the second most
important crop sown was vegetables. It was followed by industrial crops. Among cereal, paddy
was the main crop sown.
59.36% of household-based land holdings, and 21.43% of special holdings grew fruits and nuts.
But in terms of total productive are, 36.25% of land operated by household-based holdings was
under industrial permanent crops.
(9) 55.58% of all land holdings used draught animals. Regarding cattle and buffaloes, 35.84%
of household-based land holdings owned cattle, and 17.07% owned buffaloes. The exetensive 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 5.12 acres. The average size of an agricultural household was 5. Nearly two in every 3 household-based land holdings had other sources of income. The average number of parcels per household-based land holding was 1.6, and the average size of a parcel was 3.18 acres. The average cultivation intensity was found was found to be 0.93. The proportion of land left fallow was about 0.08.
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