Intensiﬁcation level of rice farming in Myanmar: implication for its sustainable development - ALiSEA .:. Agro-ecology Learning alliance in South East Asia

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Intensiﬁcation level of rice farming in Myanmar: implication for its sustainable development

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Title of document: Intensiﬁcation level of rice farming in Myanmar: implication for its sustainable development

Authors: Masahiko Matsuda

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Ministry/Government Agency/Organisation: Springer

Year of publication: 2010

Geographic focus: Myanmar

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This study aims to estimate the intensiﬁcation of rice farming in Myanmar particularly due to chemical fertilizer application, using farm-level data obtained from ﬁeld surveys conducted in the 2000s. Relatively high-input rice farming was found in dry season crop in the delta zone and the double crop in well-irrigated lowlands of the central dry zone. A gap was observed between these calculated values and the ofﬁcial statistics. A comparison of fertilizer use efﬁciency for rice production in Myanmar with that in China and Vietnam has shown that the efﬁciency in Myanmar has not declined to an inappropriate level even in its intensive ones. Rice production in Myanmar has room for increasing the yield by capital intensiﬁcation. Nevertheless, considering its sustainability as well as productivity, further intensiﬁcation in rice farming technology in irrigated lowlands of Myanmar may neither be the best nor the only way.