Myanmar : Analysis of Farm Production Economics

This report was prepared by the World Bank in partnership with the Livelihoods and Food Security Multi-Donor Trust Fund (LIFT). Both the World Bank and the LIFT are actively involved in supporting Myanmar’s agriculture sector given its significance...

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Main Author:	World Bank Group
Format:	Report
Language:	English en_US
Published:	World Bank, Yangon 2016
Subjects:	PHOTOSYNTHESIS RICE PRICES PRODUCTION ENVIRONMENT POULTRY GARLIC DUNG CULTIVATED VARIETY POOR SOIL FERTILITY FERTILIZER FARMER CROP PROFITABILITY BEANS RICE PRICE GROUNDNUT PRODUCTION AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION AGRICULTURAL HOUSEHOLDS FARM PRODUCTIVITY DRY SEASONS HYBRID SEED PESTICIDE LABOR FORCE ANIMALS FARM MANAGEMENT CONTRACT FARMING ARRANGEMENTS PLANTING PRODUCTION COST FARM ENTERPRISE AGRICULTURAL EXTENSION RICE CROP FARM INCOME FARM HOUSEHOLDS CAPITA CONSUMPTION HYBRID RICE VARIETIES FERTILIZERS INDUSTRIAL CROPS HARVESTING EQUIPMENT MAIZE PLANTS CROP YIELD SUNFLOWER CLIMATIC CONDITIONS PRODUCTIVITY IMPROVEMENTS CROP PRODUCTION SPRING ECOLOGICAL ZONE PRODUCTION SYSTEM AGRICULTURAL COMMODITIES LABOR COSTS QUALITY SEED HYBRID RICE GROUNDNUT SEEDS SOIL EROSION SESAME INCIDENCE OF PESTS LABOR PRODUCTIVITY LANDLESS LABORERS SEEDBED PREPARATION CROP DIVERSIFICATION WEED CONTROL INTERNATIONAL RICE RESEARCH INSTITUTE SEED PADDY DRAINAGE FRUITS HERBICIDES TILLERS INDICATORS FARMING POULTRY INDUSTRY FARMERS PLOWING TOBACCO CROPS SOYBEAN PEAS PRODUCE TRANSPLANTING HYBRID SEEDS OIL CROPS STRAW PADDY YIELDS FOOD SECURITY CROP SEEDLINGS SEED SECTOR PRODUCTIVITY OF LAND ECOLOGICAL ZONES AQUACULTURE RICE YIELDS RICE CROPS CULTIVATION RICE AREAS MILLET MAIZE PRODUCTION REPORTS HARVESTERS CROPPING HORTICULTURE FAO DRY SEASON AGRICULTURAL LAND CHEMICAL INPUTS SOWING RICE PRODUCTION RICE PLANTS RICE RESEARCH FERTILIZER USE FARM WORK HARVESTING WEEDS CULTIVAR IRRI MIXED CROPPING SUNFLOWER SEEDS FARM INCOMES FISHERIES BAMBOO GROUNDNUTS SUNFLOWERS POTATOES PLANT HEALTH LAND PRODUCTIVITY ECOSYSTEMS AGRICULTURAL LABOR SPACING HECTARE OF PADDY CORN FARM RA OILSEED CROPS CONTRACT FARMING FARMS OILSEEDS RICE CULTIVATION RICE VARIETIES SEED PRODUCTION CHICKPEAS COOPERATIVES AVERAGE YIELDS WHEAT SOILS SOIL TYPES DRY LAND AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTIVITY CAPITA RICE CONSUMPTION FARM LAND RICE YIELDS SOIL FERTILITY CROPPING INTENSITY CROP MANAGEMENT RICE FIELDS FARMING SYSTEMS RICE MILLS WATER SOURCE PULSES COMMODITY PLANTING MATERIALS SOIL QUALITY TILLAGE PRODUCTION COSTS HARVESTS
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2016/05/26370399/myanmar-analysis-farm-production-economics http://hdl.handle.net/10986/24584

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Summary:	This report was prepared by the World Bank in partnership with the Livelihoods and Food Security Multi-Donor Trust Fund (LIFT). Both the World Bank and the LIFT are actively involved in supporting Myanmar’s agriculture sector given its significance in poverty reduction and food security, and they both consider the lack of reliable farm data to be a significant constraint to designing effective programs and policies. This report fills some of the data gaps. In addition to presenting the collected data, the report offers the first analysis of these data. It focuses on the assessment of the extent of crop diversification and an analysis of farm production economics, in particular (partial factor) productivity of agricultural land and labor and crop profitability. This focus was chosen to study Myanmar’s commercial production areas and to facilitate international comparisons, as most international studies follow a similar approach, focusing on advanced farmers in commercial production areas. The four main findings of the report are as follows: (i) Myanmar’s farming systems are diversified and during the monsoon season most farms produce paddy, during the cool and dry seasons most farms produce crops other than paddy, mainly beans and pulses, oilseeds, and maize; (ii) the analysis reconfirmed that agricultural productivity in Myanmar is low, irrespective of what indicators are used, limiting the sector’s contribution to poverty reduction and shared prosperity; (iii) low productivity is a result of multiple factors, many of them associated with the undersupply of quality public services such as research, extension, and rural infrastructure, in delivery of which the government has a key role to play; and (iv) going forward and given that paddy is less profitable and more costly to produce than other crops in most agro-ecological zones, especially during the cool and dry seasons, it is desirable to redesign public programs from exclusive support of paddy production to support for broad-based agricultural development.

Myanmar : Analysis of Farm Production Economics

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