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Success Story: Farmers willing to use climate-smart agriculture techniques including system of rice intensification in wider scale in Labutta, Yangon

Year of publication 2020

Place of publication Yangon, Myanmar ;

Pages 3p.

Author FAO

Publisher FAO ;

Product type Brochure, flyer, fact-sheet

Edition 1

Synopsis (short abstract) This is the success story about a female farmer who joins a farmer field school from the project. First, she faced many challenges by using climate-smart agriculture techniques, later she is willing to use climate-smart agriculture techniques including the system of rice intensification in wider scale in Labutta

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​FAO. 2020. Farmers willing to use climate-smart agriculture techniques including system of rice intensification in wider scale in Labutta. Yangon

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