Yangon Division Completes Monsoon P

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Subject: Yangon Division Completes Monsoon Paddy Ploughing Season for

1999-2000
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Yangon Division Completes Monsoon Paddy Ploughing Season for 1999-2000

        A ceremony to mark the completion of monsoon paddy ploughing season  
in Yangon Division for 1999-2000  was held  in  conjunction with paddy 
transplanting competition and presenting of prizes for crop cultivation and 
production on 30 July at Sitpinkwin village, Thanlyin Township, Yangon West 
District in the Division. Yangon Division exceeded its monsoon paddy 
cultivation target by putting 1.135 million acres under monsoon paddy in the 
previous season; it is increasing its summer paddy cultivation year after 
year. Efforts are made to put all cultivable land under crops and to raise 
the per acre yield to enhance the Division's crop production. This year also 
the Division exceeded its target again by completing monsoon paddy and to 
raise the per acre yield to enhance the Division's crop production. This year 
also the Division exceeded its target again by completing monsoon paddy 
cultivation on 1.17 million acres at the end of the ploughing season. 
Increase in paddy cultivation was due to the efforts in utilizing all 
cultivable land in the region.  Majority of farmers in the nation are putting 
a total of 22 million  acres under crops on a manageable scale yearly;  
though the nation has another 22 millions acres of virgin, vacant and fallow 
lands, the government is putting emphasis in building new dams and 
pumped-water stations, distributing  pumps, power-tillers and other farm 
machines, fertilizers, pesticides and quality strains and disseminating 
advanced techniques to develop the agricultural sector and the farmers' 
social lives.
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