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MyanmarMain producing and exporting countries

Authors: 超级管理员 | Edit: xingqiang

October is the harvesting season for the main rice crops,while the crops currently in the field include wheat, maize, and the secondrice crop. For the period under consideration, the environmental indices areaverage for temperature and PAR but above average for rainfall (+26 percent)and biomass accumulation (almost 10 percent compared with the last five years).In general, the favorable precipitation condition in the cultivation periodover large parts of the country benefited the vegetative stage. On thecontrary, the average NDVI profile shows below average conditions compared withthe last five years, possibly due to severe monsoon rains during late July toOctober, which caused devastating flooding in the southern region, Kayin state,and Bago state. Maximum vegetation condition indices are very high in Sagain,Ayeyarwady, Bago, and Yangon where rice is the major crop. The profiles of NDVIclusters are mostly above average in the largely irrigated dry zone, which is amajor rice producing region and also a cultivation area for wheat. Biomassaccumulation points at average to below average conditions mostly in thenorthern region, and to favorable conditions in the central dry zone ofMyanmar.

Figure3.19. Myanmar crop condition, Oct. 2013-Jan. 2014 (a)