Agriculture

• Advances in medicine, agriculture, biotechnology, and many other areas of biology have brought improvements in the quality of life
• Genetics and evolution give insight into the past and can help shape the future, and research in ecology and conservation inform how we can protect this planet's precious biodiversity
• Biology has also helped us to understand the characteristics of living things, the similarities between plants and animals, as well as how germs work and help us staying healthier
• Agriculture


  Defined to produce commodities which maintain life, including foods, fibers, forest products, agricultural crops, horticultural crops, and their related services
• Global major agricultural products

  • Foods
  • Fibers
  • Fuels
  • Raw materials (such as rubber)
• Myanmar's agricultural exports


  • Rice
  • Maize
  • Blackgram
  • Greengram
  • Pigeonpea
  • Chickpea
  • Sesame
  • Onion
  • Tamarind
  • Raw rubber
  • Vegetables
  • Fruits
• Commercially cultivating agricultural crops in Myanmar are mainly cereals, pulses and oilseed crops
• Myanmar's farms are well diversified, with most farms producing rice paddy during the monsoon season and other crops such as beans, pulses, oilseeds and maize, during the cool and dry seasons
• Horticulture


  Does not include the intensive crop farming and large-scale crop production or animal husbandry, focuses on the use of small plots with a wide variety of mixed crops
• Major types of horticulture

  • Olericulture
  • Pomology
  • Viticulture
  • Floriculture
  • Turf management
  • Arboriculture
  • Landscape horticulture
  • Postharvest physiology