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Article: Myanmar helps cyclone-affected farmers resume farming
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- Xinhua News Agency
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- June 22, 2008
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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 ...