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Crop production: An engine in need of an upgrade

In: Myanmar’s agrifood system: Historical development, recent shocks, future opportunities

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  • Aung, Nilar
  • San, Cho Cho
  • Boughton, Duncan
  • Minten, Bart
  • Naing, Phyo Thandar
  • Belton, Ben
  • Lambrecht, Isabel B.

Abstract

According to the Myanmar Living Conditions Survey (MLCS) undertaken in 2017, 54 percent of rural households and 8.4 percent of urban households earn some of their income from crop farming (CSO, UNDP, and World Bank 2020). As seen in Chapter 2, crop production has important value-added and employment linkages upstream and downstream from farms, including in fertilizer and chemical input supply, mechanization services, transport, processing, wholesale and retail distribution, and exports. Crop production also provides the majority of the nation’s calorie intake as well as raw material for processed animal feed. However, as Chapter 3 shows, with maize as the one exception, the crop sector itself has not grown in recent years due to decades of underinvestment in agricultural research, limited transport infrastructure, and highly variable prices for export crops. This chapter provides a more detailed picture of the spatial distribution of crop production and production technologies, which is relevant to the discussion in Chapter 18 on regional variations in rural livelihoods.

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  • Aung, Nilar & San, Cho Cho & Boughton, Duncan & Minten, Bart & Naing, Phyo Thandar & Belton, Ben & Lambrecht, Isabel B., 2024. "Crop production: An engine in need of an upgrade," IFPRI book chapters, in: Myanmar’s agrifood system: Historical development, recent shocks, future opportunities, chapter 8, pages p. 201-22, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI).
    • Handle: RePEc:fpr:ifpric:155184
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