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    Myanmar urgently needs one million gallons of diesel fuel to operate 5,000 farm tillers donated by other countries to help farmers plant rice during the current growing season after Cyclone Nargis destroyed their traditional farming methods. The UN official stressed the need is extremely urgent as the planting season is June to July and it will be too late for food security if they cannot plant rice in time. Over 134,000 people were killed or missing from the cyclone that struck in May and emergency response efforts must focus on helping the most vulnerable groups like women, children and orphans recover.

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    Myanmar urgently needs one million gallons of diesel fuel to operate 5,000 farm tillers donated by other countries to help farmers plant rice during the current growing season after Cyclone Nargis destroyed their traditional farming methods. The UN official stressed the need is extremely urgent as the planting season is June to July and it will be too late for food security if they cannot plant rice in time. Over 134,000 people were killed or missing from the cyclone that struck in May and emergency response efforts must focus on helping the most vulnerable groups like women, children and orphans recover.

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    Myanmar Urgently Needs One Million Gallons of Fuel To Aid Farmers

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    Myanmar urgently needs one million gallons of diesel fuel to operate 5,000 farm tillers donated by other countries to help farmers plant rice during the current growing season after Cyclone Nargis destroyed their traditional farming methods. The UN official stressed the need is extremely urgent as the planting season is June to July and it will be too late for food security if they cannot plant rice in time. Over 134,000 people were killed or missing from the cyclone that struck in May and emergency response efforts must focus on helping the most vulnerable groups like women, children and orphans recover.

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    Myanmar urgently needs one million gallons of fuel to

    aid farmers – UN official

    13 June 2008 – A senior United Nations official says Myanmar needs one million gallons
    of diesel fuel to operate 5,000 tillers – farm implements used to break up the surface of
    soil – to help farmers plant rice in the cyclone-affected Ayeyarwady Delta area.

    The tillers were donated by Thailand, China and other countries to help farmers through
    the current growing season, following the devastation caused by Cyclone Nargis.

    “The window of opportunity is very short, and the need is of the utmost urgency,”
    Noeleen Heyzer, Executive Secretary of the UN Economic and Social Commission for
    Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP), said today in a statement. “The planting season in the
    Delta is June to July after which it will be too late, with disastrous consequences for food
    security in Myanmar and the region.”

    In a meeting with Major General Htay Oo, Minister of Agriculture of Myanmar, in


    Yangon earlier this week, Ms. Heyzer was told that the country is short of diesel fuel for
    the tillers. One agricultural tiller will cover 100 acres over 50 working days and requires
    two gallons of diesel per acre.

    More than 134,000 people are dead or missing as a result of Cyclone Nargis and the
    subsequent tidal wave, which struck Myanmar on 2-3 May. As many as 2.4 million
    people were affected and need humanitarian assistance. The cyclone also destroyed
    livestock and buffaloes, which are the traditional animals used for plowing the fields,
    especially in the Ayeyarwady Delta, the rice-bowl of the country.

    Ms. Heyzer stressed that the emergency response and early recovery efforts need to pay
    special attention to women and children, especially orphans. Women also need to be
    involved in recovery and reconstruction efforts, including in areas such as the design of
    shelters, the rebuilding of communities, basic services and livelihoods.

    The Executive Secretary visited Myanmar from 9 to 11 June to discuss recovery and
    reconstruction efforts as well as the country’s longer-term economic and social
    development.

    http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=27016&Cr=Myanmar&Cr1=

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