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Myanmar farmers have high hopes for monsoon harvest

STORY: Myanmar farmers have high hopes for monsoon harvest DATELINE: July 14, 2023 LENGTH: 00:02:31 LOCATION: YANGON, Myanmar CATEGORY: AGRICULTURE SHOTLIST: 1. various of farmers working in the field in the Bago Region 2. various of farmers planting paddy seedlings in Yangon STORYLINE: Motivated by a significant increase in profits from last year's harvest, Myanmar rice farmers began to prepare for growing paddy in rain-fed fields in July. According to farmers, the paddy price reached approximately 1.6 million kyats per 100 baskets (4,600 pounds), compared to around 600,000 kyats per 100 baskets recorded in the same period of the previous year. Meanwhile, farmers are also expected to benefit from lower costs as this year's rice plantation season came with decreased input prices. The price of diesel fuel for agricultural machinery has decreased to 8,000 kyats per gallon, a drop from the 12,000 kyats recorded last year, while fertilizer prices have declined from over 100,000 kyats to 80,000 k

MYANMAR-YANGON-RICE PLANTING

(230713) -- YANGON, July 13, 2023 (Xinhua) -- A farmer works in a paddy field at Dala Township in Yangon, Myanmar, July 13, 2023. TO GO WITH "Feature: Myanmar farmers have high hopes for this year's monsoon harvest" (Photo by Myo Kyaw Soe/Xinhua)

China celebrates farmers' harvest festival

STORY: China celebrates farmers' harvest festival DATELINE: Sept. 23, 2021 LENGTH: 00:01:12 LOCATION: Beijing CATEGORY: AGRICULTURE SHOTLIST: 1. various of the agricultural expo park in Chengdu 2. various of farmers in Linzhou County harvesting 3. various of hairy crabs in Jiangsu 4. various of farmers in Inner Mongolia STORYLINE: The 5th Chinese farmers' harvest festival falls on Friday as the country is poised to embrace another bumper grain harvest. In an agricultural expo park in Chengdu in Sichuan Province, nearly 20 paddy fields were well designed to symbolize a bumper harvest. To complete these paddy field drawings, the technical team used satellite positioning and 3D technologies to conduct digital mapping. Linzhou County in Lhasa in China's Tibet has also welcomed a harvest of highland barley. The crop has been planted in Tibet for more than 3,500 years. In a modern agricultural industrial park of Suqian in Jiangsu Province, more than 50,000 kg of hairy crabs were transported from here to oth