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Katha Toungoo

Every year around 300–500 million poepleare infected with malaria from the bite offemale

Anopheles

Mosquitos, of which

between 1 and 3 million die, making thisthe deadliest animal in the world.

Around 60 percent of Myanmar’s cultivated landis given over to growing rice, producing almost20 million tons (tonnes) each year.