The soil quality in agricultural land is degrading in most of the paddy fields.
The deluge also destroyed some 972,000 acres of standing crops -- most of all paddy rice -- 36,000 acres of fish and shrimp ponds, and an estimated 20,000 head of cattle.
We analyze the effects of clay processing and vessel manufacture on these clays and find that the most diagnostic attribute of paddy soils, the iron oxide mottling, is retained in finished vessels.
Results show that rainwater harvesting for production of paddy rice paid most with returns to labor of more than 12 US$ per person-day invested.
Throughout most of the year, rice paddies provide extensive sites for mosquito breeding, particularly of the molecular M form of An. gambiae s.s.s
Just a few years ago, this rice paddy and most of the surrounding fields in this village of 5,000 were barren.
Instead, he keeps most of his wealth in coarse paddy rice stored in a silo behind his house, about 3,600,000 kyats worth.
Third, typhoons at the end of this 60 day period coincided with the pollination period of some of the paddy and most of the maize with winds high and prolonged enough to severely reduce pollination.
"Most villagers are worried about their ripe crops of paddy and maize," said government officer Thakur Sher Singh.
The clear, tropical waters here provide some of the most spectacular swimming and diving in the world, while scenes of paddy fields contoured into limestone hillsides, lush tropical forests and high tumbling waterfalls, entrance nature lovers on land.
