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    Tagged: farming

    Chin Environment Lead Story News

    Efforts to change Chin farming habits seek to slow harmful deforestation

    Can Chin State’s farmers move away from shifting cultivation and embrace sedentary agriculture in time to save the western region’s forests?

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    Doh Pyay Doh Myay: ‘Like a gull searching for food in the sea’

    Join the “roadies” of DVB’s Doh Pyay Doh Myay (Our Land, Our Region) in Hainggyi Kyun, a coastal settlement in the Irrawaddy Delta located about 220 kilometres southwest of Rangoon. There, for many, lives and livelihoods are tied to the sea.

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    Dry Zone farmers struggle to switch to new rice varieties

    The introduction of more productive crops is a key strategy for helping vulnerable communities in the Dry Zone.

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    India turns to Burma, Africa for pulse imports

    India is looking to import pulses from Burma and African nations to counter a domestic shortfall of 7.6 million tonnes.

    Business Lead Story Natural Disasters News

    Burmese rice exports to resume

    The temporary ban on Burma’s rice exports, which was imposed due to shortages and inflation during last month’s flood disaster, may soon be lifted.

    Farmers Lead Story Natural Disasters News Uncategorized

    Burma left to count cost of flood disaster

    Damage to livestock and farming infrastructure has compounded the strain on some 1.6 million people affected by recent monsoonal flooding and landslides.

    One group’s struggle to modernise Chin State’s farming techniques video

    Environment Lead Story News Video

    One group’s struggle to modernise Chin State’s farming techniques

    A collective of ethnic Matu people – a major sub group of the Chin – are working on an initiative to replace slash and burn farming in Matupi Township with sustainable agriculture methods.

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    Organic farming offers Kachin IDPs vital health options

    An organic farming programme run by a small Kachin community-based organisation offers some sustainable, healthy relief for those displaced by war in northern Burma.

    Plough protestors charged with trespassing and vandalism video

    Land Lead Story News Property Video

    Plough protestors charged with trespassing and vandalism

    Four farmers in central Burma’s Madaya have been charged with trespassing and vandalism, after staging a ploughing protest on land that had been confiscated by the government.

    Farmers protest flooding caused by fishery dam video

    Environment Lead Story News Property Video

    Farmers protest flooding caused by fishery dam

    More than 100 farmers in Irrawaddy division say they will take legal action against a local fishery company, claiming the firm’s operations cause extensive flooding to their farmland.

    Military land grabs leave farmers in despair video

    Features Lead Story Property Video

    Military land grabs leave farmers in despair

    Farmers in Dalla township are forced to relocate after the Burmese military confiscated 500 acres of land to make way for a naval storage base.

    Environment Lead Story News

    Magwe rice paddies destroyed by floodwaters

    More than 2,000 acres of rice paddies have been destroyed by storms and heavy rains which submerged farmlands in Magwe division’s Pwintbyu township during the last week of October.

    Land grabbing ahead of SEA Games video

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    Land grabbing ahead of SEA Games

    By ALI FOWLE In the run up to the South East Asian Games, due to be held in Burma at the end of this year, locals in Irrawaddy division are being[…]

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    A Day in the Life

    [album: https://www.dvb.no/wp-content/plugins/dm-albums/dm-albums.php?currdir=/wp-content/uploads/dm-albums/A Day in the Life/] While the Burmese government continues to auction off the country’s vast natural energy resources as part of its grand vision of a developed nation[…]

    Business News

    Food tax levied on struggling Burmese

    Sept 7, 2009 (DVB), A tax on food has been introduced in central Burma, increasing food prices by 10 percent for people already complaining of difficulties affording basic foodstuffs. Authorities[…]

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    Food tax levied on struggling Burmese

    Sept 7, 2009 (DVB), A tax on food has been introduced in central Burma, increasing food prices by 10 percent for people already complaining of difficulties affording basic foodstuffs. Authorities[…]

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    Biting the hand that feeds the nation

    Pascal Khoo-ThweMar 2, 2009 (DVB), As Peasants' Day is marked in Burma on 2 March, the plight of farmers in the country remains desperate. Farmers or ‘peasants’, including tribesmen, are[…]

    Business Features (OLD)

    Biting the hand that feeds the nation

    Pascal Khoo-ThweMar 2, 2009 (DVB), As Peasants' Day is marked in Burma on 2 March, the plight of farmers in the country remains desperate. Farmers or ‘peasants’, including tribesmen, are[…]

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    Forestry officials confiscate cattle from farmers

    Feb 25, 2009 (DVB), Forestry authorities confiscated 24 bulls and 46 bullock carts from farmers in Kyauktaga village in Daik-U township, Bago division, accusing the farmers of stealing timber and[…]

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    Farmers given limited compensation for seized land

    Feb 17, 2009 (DVB), Farmers in Rangoon’s New Dagon Port township were disappointed to be given a very small amount of compensation for the more than 6000 acres of farmlands[…]

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    Feature: Taking out a contract on Burma’s farmers

    Tine GyawFeb 10, 2009 (DVB), When the British ruled Burma, the living standard of farmers was very low due to the monopolisation of the rice trade by the colonial power[…]

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    Taking out a contract on Burma’s farmers

    Tine GyawFeb 10, 2009 (DVB), When the British ruled Burma, the living standard of farmers was very low due to the monopolisation of the rice trade by the colonial power[…]

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    Grassroots activist pressured by police

    Feb 6, 2009 (DVB), Grassroots activist Than Soe, who helped local farmers in Magwe's Aung Lan township report land seizures, has gone into hiding after being threatened with arrest by[…]

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    Farmland confiscated for road to defence factory

    Feb 3, 2009 (DVB), More than 20 acres of farmland in Setoketaya township, Magwe division, have been confiscated to build a road to a defence materiel factory six miles outside[…]

    Business News

    Farmers pressured to repay state loans

    Feb 3, 2009 (DVB), Farmers in lower Burma, who have been finding it difficult to pay back agricultural loans due to low yields and falling prices, are coming under pressure[…]

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    New Dagon authorities confiscate paddy fields

    Jan 29, 2009 (DVB), Authorities in the port district of New Dagon township in Rangoon division have confiscated more than 6000 acres of paddy fields and driven farmers and animals[…]

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    Bago farmers forced to buy costly rice seed

    Jan 19, 2009 (DVB), Authorities in Bago division’s Tharawaddy township have ordered local farmers to grow only rice seedlings sold by the agricultural department, according to a farmer from the[…]

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    Monk seizes farmland in Bago for pagoda

    Jan 16, 2009 (DVB), Local farmers from Tawwi in Bago division’s Nyaunlaypin township have complained that a monk named Dhamma Pala has seized their land to build a pagoda. A[…]

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    Farmers encouraged to join USDA to get loans

    Jan 15, 2009 (DVB), Farmers seeking agricultural loans from the Union Solidarity and Development Association are being encouraged to join the organisation and charged fees for application forms. Local farmer[…]

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    Bean farms flooded by authorities in Bago

    Jan 9, 2009 (DVB)-About 60 acres of bean plants were destroyed in Bago division’s Nyaung Lay Pin province when authorities opened the nearby floodgates, allegedly to force farmers to grow[…]

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