Posted AT 5:19 AM EDT on 08/05/08
Myanmar's worsening crisis
1. FOODThe low-lying areas of the Irrawaddy delta provided Myanmar with the majority of its rice supply. But the cyclone wiped out the region's entire crop, and that damage will have profound implications for the country's food supply in the immediate and distant future.
"To have the next crop, they will need seedlings, which they don't have because the crop is gone," said Ramesh Shrestha, Unicef representative in Myanmar.
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