Project News

The following field works were conducted in July in accordance with plan of Pilot Research Program in July.

Preliminary Study:

	Group	Date	Place	Activities
1	RB01	31/July-1/Aug	Mandalay	Interview to whole sellers about supply chain of beans
2	RB02	30/July	Nay Pyi Taw	Survey on sesame diseases/ collecting sample
3	CR01	16-17/July	Mandalay	Interview about animal husbandry and feeding

Main Research:

1. A Member of RC-01 (Agronomy Group) stayed Pwintphyu Township, Magway Division which is the major producing area of sesame in Myanmar to measure the postharvest loss and to collect experiment sample.
2. RA-02 (Plant Pathology Group) began to cultivate bacteria of main disease of paddy such as blast disease and leaf blight disease, and to make specimens of bacterial strain.
3. RB-03 (Entomology and Zoology Group) began to identify seasonal pest outbreak in order to create pest alert warning model.

Measuring the seedling establishment rate of rice sown in dry paddy field (30/July; Zeya Thiri Township)

Observing and detecting sesame disease (01/July; Phynmana Township)

Direct sowing at dry paddy field (30/June; YAU experimental farm)

Growing rice in bucket for experiment (25/July; Dept. of Breeding, YAU)