Paddy Field in Myanmar Begins Green

Most farmers are busy now, prepare their Oxen to pull their york in the field. As rice is our main food in Myanmar, paddy field is very important. It is our source of life.

Up until the later 1960s, Myanmar was the main exporter of rice. Termed the rice basket of South East Asia, much of the rice grown in Myanmar does not rely on fertilizers and pesticides, thus, although "organic" in a sense, it has been unable to cope with population growth and other rice economies which utilized fertilizers.