FAO/GIEWS - Foodcrops & Shortages 11/00 - MYANMAR (6 November)
Harvesting of the main (monsoon) rice crop should be well advanced and near completion. Main season rice normally accounts for around 85 percent of aggregate production the remaining 15 percent coming from the second, or dry season crop, which is planted in October/November for harvest the following April/May. Current forecast is that paddy production in the 2000/01 marketing year will be similar to the 19.8 million tonnes produced in 1999.
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