The Mudon Township Peace and Development Council (TPDC) has ordered farmers to replant the good yielding variety of paddy "Shwe Bo 1" in the special zone again to showcase it for the visiting Southeast Command Commander based in Moulmein, the capital of Mon state.

The Mudon TPDC chairman U Kyaw Kyaw Aung and the officer of Myanmar Agriculture Service, MAS called a meeting of farmers from the special zone and the good yielding zone at Kwan-tha village in order to plant Shwe Bo-1.

They told farmers that Shwe Bo-1 could produce about 180 baskets per acre and ordered replanting of seeds in the special zone before the Southeast Command Commander Major General Thet Naing Win comes to Kwan-tha village.

According to a farmer, they don't want to replant the seedlings in their fields because they had already used fertilizer for the existing seedlings in the field and the seedlings have just sprouted. About 20 acres have been brought under Shwe Bo-1.

Farmers over 10 acres in the special zone Kwan-tha village also have to plant the paddy variety that could be harvested in two and-a-half months for the double crops project in the rainy season on the orders of the MAS manager from Moulmein District.

Not only farmers from Kwan-tha village would have to replant the good variety but also from Taung bone village in Ye. The replanting is to be done systemically in rows in their fields.  

The Burmese regime has also encouraged changing to the good yielding paddy seedlings for development of the agriculture sector, according to the New Light of Myanmar.