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NEWS - Un's Fao Sends Agriculture A
- Subject: NEWS - Un's Fao Sends Agriculture A
- From: BurmaJapan@xxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 09 Dec 1997 14:57:00
Un's Fao Sends Agriculture Aid to Burma
Reuters
09-DEC-97
ROME, Dec 9 (Reuters) - The United
Nations Food and Agriculture
Organisation said on Tuesday it would
provide Burma with $318,000 in aid to
rehabilitate its agriculture after unusually
widespread floods in July and August.
The Rome-based agency said in a
statement that at the government's
request, it would supply sunflower, soya
bean and vegetable seeds free for the
Burmese agriculture service to distribute
to flood-stricken farmers.
It said some 510,000 hectares of crops
were devastated in the floods, some
124,000 farmers lost their crops and there
was now an acute shortage of seeds for
planting.
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