Article: Myanmar helps cyclone-affected farmers resume farming

Myanmar helps cyclone-affected farmers resume farming

YANGON, June 22 (Xinhua) -- Myanmar has provided a total of 2, 000 power tillers for farmers in two cyclone-hardest-hit townships in the Ayeyawaddy delta to enable them to resume farming in the time of the cultivation season which started this month, reported the official newspaper of the New Light of Myanmar Sunday.

Farmers in the two townships of Laputta and Dedaye were also provided with draught cattle and paddy seeds for the move.

Besides, the authorities are also building some embankments in Laputta to protect it from being flooded by sea water and the construction has initially enabled nearly 40,000 acres (16,194 hectares) to be ...

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