[21twelve]

I had read where Myanmar was an exporter of rice (to India and somewhere else). I imagine what is now left will stay home. Amazing and terrible the amount of land (and lives) that is gone looking at that earlier satellite photo.

[yankeedame]

I had read where Myanmar was an exporter of rice (to India and somewhere else). I imagine what is now left will stay home.

No necessarily. At the height of the Soviet famine(s) the government regularly exported Russian grain for cash and/or weapons, leaving international relief agencies to feed the starving.