A United Nations agency warned Wednesday of the need to help Myanmar's cyclone-stricken farmers plant rice for the next growing season but said the situation was better than originally feared.
Some 52,000 farmers in Myanmar's Irrawaddy delta will be unable to grow a 2008 rainy season rice crop unless they are supplied with farming equipment and seed within the next two months, the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization said.
Failure to do so will pose social and economic problems, but cause just a 2 percent shortfall in projected national rice production, FAO consultant Albert Lieberg said at a news conference in Bangkok, Thailand.
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