7 July
PLANS call for cultivat-ing more than 1.2 million acres of beans and puls-es throughout Sagaing Region during this rainy season, said U Win Hlaing Oo, head of Sagaing Re-gion Agriculture Depart-ment.
The department set its target to grow 558,576 acres of green grams, 604,266 acres of pigeon peas, 12,792 acres of cow peas, 18,989 acres of mung beans, 85,073 acres of lima beans, 10,655 acres of butter beans, 820 acres of rice beans, 9,002 acres of lablab beans and 21,189 acres of other varieties of beans and pulses.
According to its crop growing programme, the department will develop 174,779 acres of beans plantations in Sagaing District, 272,852 acres in Monywa District, 182,307 acres in Yinmabin Dis-trict, 349,448 acres in Shwebo District, 224,039 acres in Kantbalu Dis-trict, 3,177 acres in Ka-tha District, 12,656 acres in Kalay District, 431 acres in Khamti District and 3,767 acres in Naga Self-Administered Zone, totalling 1,223,366 acres.
Beans and pulses have been exported to In-dia, Pakistan, Dubai, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh.—Win Oo (Zeyataing)
(Translated by Khaing Thanda Lwin)
