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28 अगस्त 2008

Extended cultivation of beans, pulses called for in Myanmar

YANGON (Xinhua): Myanmar official media Wednesday called for extending cultivation of marketable beans and pulses as a continued effort to maintain the status that such Myanmar crops have earned a good reputation for its quality in local and international markets.
"Myanmar beans and pulses have had a foothold in the international market. So, it is to take measures not only for boosting export of the crops but also for fetching handsome prices through extensive cultivation of quality strains of crops, and use of fertilizers and pesticide," the New Light of Myanmar stressed in its editorial.
Myanmar's five divisions and states of Ayeyawaddy, Bago, Sagaing, Mandalay and Magway are extensively growing beans an pulses that are marketable at home and abroad with the latter three divisions growing the crops on a commercial scale, the editorial said.
In addition, large-scale cultivation of soya bean is also being introduced as it is found in demand in the foreign markets, it added.
Merchants trading agricultural crops in Myanmar are planning to set up special beans, pulses and sesame cultivation zones across the country to develop such crops production and boost export.
Using high quality strains, the Myanmar Beans and Pulses and Sesame Merchants Association is also striving for the country to become the highest exporter of such crops in the world.
Beans and pulses are among the 10 major items of agricultural crops that Myanmar grow. Among them, gram, lablab bean, pigeon pea, butter bean and soya bean are cultivated most in the country.
Myanmar has become the second largest beans and pulses exporter in the world after Canada and topped beans exporter in Asia with India standing as Myanmar's largest buyer of the crops which accounted for 72 percent of Myanmar's total beans export. The country's beans and pulses gained the Japanese market most in the past but are weak in competitiveness in winning the European market for its quality.
According to figures of the Central Statistical Organization, in 2007-08, Myanmar exported 1.177 million tons of various items of beans and pulses including Matpe, Pedesein, Pesingon, Gram, Sesamum seeds and Niger seeds, earning a total of 670 million U.S. dollars.
Since 1988-89, the cultivated area of beans and pulses has gradually grown year by year, reaching over 3 million hectares so far.
Beans and pulses, like other agricultural crops such as rice, stand as one of the mainstay of the country's economy. (The Hindu)

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