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Remaking Asia's rice bowl
2015-04-09 07:26:19| Agriculture - Topix.net
A farmer works at his paddy field on the outskirts of Yangon. For much of the early 20th century Myanmar was Asia's rice bowl, but after a nominally socialist junta seized power in 1962, decades of mismanagement shattered the agriculture industry in a nation where 70% of inhabitants still live in the countryside.
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Category:Agriculture and Forestry