FINAL REPORT

14.2.2 Economic Structure and Crop Marketing
Farmland and Cultivation
The six farming households cultivated a totalof 14.6 ha land for crop farming -that means 2.4
ha per household on average, which represents a comparably large size. The household with
the smallest field cultivated 1 ha, the household with the largest cultivated 5.9 ha. 23
Households who have access to sufficient water supply also possess hayfields. The surveyed
households in total use 16.4 ha land for hay making.
As the results show (Fig. 62), households mainly cultivated potatoes, which are planted on 8.9
ha or 61 %of their cultivated fields. This was explained by the fact that potatoes require less
irrigation than other crops and generate comparatively high yields. There is only limited
cultivation of melons, carrots, cabbage and other vegetables and none of the households
cultivated cereals.
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9
8.9
8
Sown area (ha)
7
6
5
4
3
2.3
2
1
0
P o tato e s
1.15
Carrots
0.25 0.3
T o m atoes
Cucumbe rs
0.05
O nions
0.6
Cabba g es
0.1
T urnips
W a te r m elons
0.9
H oneydew
m e lons
0
O ther
Crops
Figure 62: Sown Area for Crop Cultivation of Surveyed Households (ha), Myangad sum 2006
Source: Survey results, June 2006
Harvest and Household Revenues
All households responded that they were engaged in crop farming in order to meet their
household needs as well as to sell crops at the market. Fig. 63 shows the size of harvest and
23 In addition this household possessed 7 ha of hayfields.
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