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EXPLORING ALTERNATIVES IN MYANMAR'S WILD NORTH.

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  • المؤلفون: R. S.
  • المصدر:
    Science. 10/12/2007, Vol. 318 Issue 5848, p186-186. 1p. 1 Color Photograph.
  • معلومة اضافية
    • الموضوع:
      QUALITY of life; BIODIVERSITY; FAMINES; SOCIAL indicators; OPIUM poppy; JATROPHA; BIOMASS energy; ENTREPRENEURSHIP; WANG Yingming
    • الموضوع:
      MYANMAR
    • نبذة مختصرة :
      The article discusses some alternatives to lift the local living standards in Myanmar and access for scientists to a biodiversity hot spot. In January 2008, the Research and Education Center for Alternative Development (RECAD) will open for business in Special Region Four (SR-4), a district of Shan State of northeastern Myanmar which shares China's Yunnan Province in the Golden Triangle. In SR-4, opium poppies were lessened in 1998, however, poppies grow into the corners of Myanmar. According to Wang Yingming, a Chinese entrepreneur, these people grow poppies not from desire but because of famine. In order to divert, the people from growing such plants, RECAD will test plants such as Jatropha that can be used to produce biofuels for the Chinese market.