Agriculture in Myanmar

In Burma, the paddies are flooded only occasionally by rivers, while a majority of the time farmers rely on the monsoon season for the necessary water.

Initially, the Mandalay and Sagaing regions of Burma were affected, and this resulted in the culling of several thousand chickens, quails and their eggs.

However, as of 2006, the country's livestock officials announced a plan to fund the restocking of birds and feed for the affected poultry farms.

[9]: 86  The 2012 Major Commodity and Service Law prohibited the export of live cattle, although a lack of enforcement Myanmar meant that significant smuggling out of the country occurred.

[9]: 86  In 2017, Aung San Suu Kyi's government lifted the ban and began regulating cattle exports as a revenue-raising measure.

[15] The decrease in emphasis on exporting agricultural goods could reflect a response to the fluctuating value of the Burmese kyat as it relates to other nations' currencies.

Instead, attention was directed towards creating "non-traded services," like construction, or to the production of goods with a high "price to cost ratio," like gems, jade and natural gas.

Some credit slash-and-burn farming methods with "destroying the forests of the country, causing soil erosion and depletion of fertility,"[1] considering it to be reckless deforestation.

Recently, the Burmese Government has increased its attempted regulation of farming practices, and this includes banning slash-and-burn tactics in some villages.

[5] Because farmers in Burma rely on the monsoon season as their primary water source, they are subject to the recent fluctuating weather patterns.

For example, the Burmese rice crop was negatively affected by a record high rainfall during the prolonged 2011 monsoon season which resulted in a projected 10 percent drop in production.