Crop production: An engine in need of an upgrade

According to the Myanmar Living Conditions Survey (MLCS) undertaken in 2017, 54 percent of rural households and 8.4 percent of urban households earn some of their income from crop farming (CSO, UNDP, and World Bank 2020). As seen in Chapter 2, crop production has important value-added and employment...

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Autores principales: Aung, Nilar, San, Cho Cho, Boughton, Duncan, Minten, Bart, Naing, Phyo Thandar, Belton, Ben, Lambrecht, Isabel B.
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Publicado: International Food Policy Research Institute 2024
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Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/155184
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author Aung, Nilar
San, Cho Cho
Boughton, Duncan
Minten, Bart
Naing, Phyo Thandar
Belton, Ben
Lambrecht, Isabel B.
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Belton, Ben
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Minten, Bart
Naing, Phyo Thandar
San, Cho Cho
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description According to the Myanmar Living Conditions Survey (MLCS) undertaken in 2017, 54 percent of rural households and 8.4 percent of urban households earn some of their income from crop farming (CSO, UNDP, and World Bank 2020). As seen in Chapter 2, crop production has important value-added and employment linkages upstream and downstream from farms, including in fertilizer and chemical input supply, mechanization services, transport, processing, wholesale and retail distribution, and exports. Crop production also provides the majority of the nation’s calorie intake as well as raw material for processed animal feed. However, as Chapter 3 shows, with maize as the one exception, the crop sector itself has not grown in recent years due to decades of underinvestment in agricultural research, limited transport infrastructure, and highly variable prices for export crops. This chapter provides a more detailed picture of the spatial distribution of crop production and production technologies, which is relevant to the discussion in Chapter 18 on regional variations in rural livelihoods.
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spelling CGSpace1551842025-11-06T04:13:49Z Crop production: An engine in need of an upgrade Aung, Nilar San, Cho Cho Boughton, Duncan Minten, Bart Naing, Phyo Thandar Belton, Ben Lambrecht, Isabel B. agrifood systems crop production development economic shock governance spatial distribution According to the Myanmar Living Conditions Survey (MLCS) undertaken in 2017, 54 percent of rural households and 8.4 percent of urban households earn some of their income from crop farming (CSO, UNDP, and World Bank 2020). As seen in Chapter 2, crop production has important value-added and employment linkages upstream and downstream from farms, including in fertilizer and chemical input supply, mechanization services, transport, processing, wholesale and retail distribution, and exports. Crop production also provides the majority of the nation’s calorie intake as well as raw material for processed animal feed. However, as Chapter 3 shows, with maize as the one exception, the crop sector itself has not grown in recent years due to decades of underinvestment in agricultural research, limited transport infrastructure, and highly variable prices for export crops. This chapter provides a more detailed picture of the spatial distribution of crop production and production technologies, which is relevant to the discussion in Chapter 18 on regional variations in rural livelihoods. 2024-10-10 2024-10-04T13:56:11Z 2024-10-04T13:56:11Z Book Chapter https://hdl.handle.net/10568/155184 en https://hdl.handle.net/10568/152392 Open Access application/pdf International Food Policy Research Institute Aung, Nilar; San, Cho Cho; Boughton, Duncan; Minten, Bart; Naing, Phyo Thandar; Belton, Ben; and Lambrecht, Isabel. 2024. Crop production: An engine in need of an upgrade. In Myanmar’s agrifood system: Historical development, recent shocks, future opportunities, Duncan Boughton, Ben Belton, Isabel Lambrecht, and Bart Minten, eds. Chapter 8, Pp. 201-220. https://hdl.handle.net/10568/155184
spellingShingle agrifood systems
crop production
development
economic shock
governance
spatial distribution
Aung, Nilar
San, Cho Cho
Boughton, Duncan
Minten, Bart
Naing, Phyo Thandar
Belton, Ben
Lambrecht, Isabel B.
Crop production: An engine in need of an upgrade
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title_fullStr Crop production: An engine in need of an upgrade
title_full_unstemmed Crop production: An engine in need of an upgrade
title_short Crop production: An engine in need of an upgrade
title_sort crop production an engine in need of an upgrade
topic agrifood systems
crop production
development
economic shock
governance
spatial distribution
url https://hdl.handle.net/10568/155184
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