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Support services 78Investment 79Agricultural research 80Agricultural extension 83Proven new technology 86Government support and leadership 86Selectivity and concentration 87Mass participation 88Demonstration and competition 88Pilot program 89Full-scale program 93Analysis of the program 97Results of analysis 99Further analysis 100Evaluation of the program 107Multiplier effect 110Irrigation 112Mechanization 113Cropping intensity 115Rice trading 116Rice milling 121Rice consumption 123Rice exports 124Beneficiaries of production 126Stability and sustainability 126Equity 126Impact 127V. Implications for the future 129Investment alternatives 130Farmer participatory research and extension 131Selection of scientists 132Motivation of scientists 133Preprogram activities 133A detailed working program 134Farmer participatory extension 135VI. Conclusions 137References cited 139List of statistical appendices 143Conversion factors 155Index 157V
Page 3 and 4: The International Rice Research Ins
Page 5: Rice trading 29Rice milling 29Rice
Page 10 and 11: PrefaceRice is Burma’s most impor
Page 12: Abbreviations and acronymsAC = Agri
Page 15 and 16: Table 1. Mean annual precipitation
Page 17 and 18: 2. Rainfall distribution.4 A CENTUR
Page 19 and 20: Due to the involvement of a huge la
Page 21 and 22: The equity of production, however,
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Page 25 and 26: 6. Tillage using a wooden spike-har
Page 27 and 28: Classification based on water regim
Page 33: these favorable conditions, the hig
Page 50 and 51: CHAPTER IllRice production under th
Page 52 and 53: intervention, in the form of agricu
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of 100-400% per annum, still played
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kyats (Walinsky 1962). Investments
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Rice tradingAt the end of World War
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hectare would produce enough rice f
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Stability and sustainabilityThe ste
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CHAPTER IVRice production under the
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aise production to the highest poss
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Table 28. Rice area and population,
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Table 31. Rice yield in selected ye
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The areas devoted to MVs in selecte
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Table 36. Distribution of improved
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The rates of fertilizer calculated
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Y = 2447 + 13.65 N - 0.073 N 2Y = 2
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Extensive use of agrochemicals with
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this period, credit could be consid
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tional framework reestablished duri
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Organization assisted ARI by provid
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work in experimental plots endowed
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such a practice, resources were spr
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Mass participationThe new technolog
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14. Production camp at Hmawbi towns
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Many slogans explaining the objecti
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involvement of more townships repre
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program, without the program (WOP),
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Yield in kg/ha was used as the depe
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cant impact on yield. (The average
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variables at the 5% level) with an
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places. Areas with late rainfall ha
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“ignorant” of farm conditions.
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preprogram years increased to about
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the labor requirement from the hous
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the fourth group, exercising a comm
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exhausted after one season of rice
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aised cropping intensity was theref
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The price variation was due to the
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were used by AFPTC to set procureme
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Table 66. Rice mills and their mill
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diction. The question of sustaining
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Beneficiaries of productionThe peri
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introduce a crop insurance scheme t
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to improve the plight of farmers. R
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Farmer participatory research is of
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collected from township headquarter
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source-poor farmers to secure bette
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attention. It would be wasteful to
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Khin Win, Kyaw-Shin, Htin Aung (197
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AppendicesAppendix I. Sown area and
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Appendix II continuedShareRice a Al
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Appendix III continuedGross Cattle
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Appendix VI. Changes in variable me
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Appendix VII. Means and standard de
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Mean SD Mean SD Mean SD Mean SD Mea
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Conversion factors1 kilogram (kg)1
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Bangladesh 1, 70Barker, R A 31, 34,
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Kachin 15, 59, 65, 94kanzo 19kaing
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Sri Lanka 32-33, 50, 66, 124State A
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