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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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