(1) 1,103,582 acres in Yangon Division were distributed among 111,472 holding; 99.95% of total agricultural holdings were household-bases land holdings. About 40% of household-based land holdings were farms between 10 and 20 acres in size, and only very few (0.15%) were farms extending over 50 acres. Among special land holdings, 67.86% were 50 acres and above in size.
(2) 89.81% of holders were males and only 10.19% were females. 96.60% of all holders had formal schooling indicating their capability to adopt improved techniques of production and to be responsive to effective extension services. 73.17% of holders worked permanenty on holdings. 33.34% of land holders had other sources of income.
(3) 51.73% of all holdings employed paid workers, 47.06% employed occasional workers, and only 21.64% employed permanent workers. A large portion of labour input was supplied by farm families. Among paid workers, the numer of occasional workers was as much as 2 times greater than that of the permanent workers.
Special holdings however employed a comparatively larger percentage of hired labour; paid workers (58.49%), permanent workers (41.51%) and occasional workers (84.91%).
(4) A large percentage of special land holdings used machinery and equipment than did household-based land holdings. 37.74% of special holdings used water pumps, 28.57% used tractors, 30.19% used generators/motors, 17.86% used power tillers and 25% used other farm machinery. Among household-based land holdings, only 3.22% of household-base holdings used huller machines. Large farms had the advantage to adopt modern farm machinery.
(5) A comparatively larger percentage of special land holdings used agricultural chemicals, 85.71% used inorganic fertilizers, and 71.43% used organic fertilizers. The same is true with the use of pesticides and HYV seeds; 53.57% used pesticides and 53.57% used HYV seeds.As in the case of capital inputs, large farms benefitted from the use of new technical know-how and modern methods of cultivation.
(6) 9.13% of land holdings used irrigation. Own wells, rivers, creeks and canals were the important sources of irrigation; they provided irrigation to 89.61% of household-based land holdings using irrigation systems.
(7) 95.63% of the total land area was paddy land, 2.28% garden land, and a small percentage of 0.17% was Ya land. Among special holdings, 50.45% of the total land area was rubber land.
(8) 46.86% of total productive area operated by household-based land holdings, and 5.01% by special were under fruits and nuts. For special land holdings, the most important crop sown was industrial crops.
(9) 91.79% of all land holdings used draught animals. Regarding cattle and buffaloes, 75.62% of household-based land holdings owned cattle, and only 15.44% 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 10.84 acres. The average size of agricultural household was 5. Nearly one in every 3 household-based land holdings had other sources of income. The average number of parcel per household-based land holding was 1.4, and the average size of a parcel was 7.74 acres. The average cultivation intensity was found to be 1.11. The proportion of land left fallow was about 0.01.
MAP YANGON