The CP maize is worth K15,000 per basket this year, whereas it fetches only K9,000 per basket. The growers of hybrid maize are generating a handsome profit at present.
Efforts are being made to grow two crops a year in the Naga Self-Administered Zone, only one crop is grown each year, said U Thein Tun Tin, the Agriculture Department head in the Naga Self-Administered Zone.
Growers of butter beans are making handsome profits in Pwintbyu Township, Magway Region as the butter bean fetches higher prices at the beginning of the harvest season.