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Upland Farming Systems Coping with Uncertain Rainfall in the Central Dry Zone of Myanmar: How Stable is Indigenous Multiple Cropping Under Semi-Arid Conditions?

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Acknowledgments

I express my thanks to the Department of Agricultural Planning, Ministry of Agriculture and Irrigation, Republic of the Union of Myanmar for their great support during my research. This research was financially supported by Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research (19710214 and 23710310) from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, Japan, and the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science. Some preliminary results of this paper were presented at the 104th conference of the Japanese Society for Tropical Agriculture, Kagoshima (Japan), 18–19 October 2008.

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Matsuda, M. Upland Farming Systems Coping with Uncertain Rainfall in the Central Dry Zone of Myanmar: How Stable is Indigenous Multiple Cropping Under Semi-Arid Conditions?. Hum Ecol 41, 927–936 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10745-013-9604-x

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