The major agricultural product is <answer>rice</answer>, which covers about 60% of the country's total cultivated land area. Rice accounts for 97% of total food grain production by weight. Through collaboration with the International Rice Research Institute 52 modern <answer>rice</answer> varieties were released in the country between 1966 and 1997, helping increase national <answer>rice</answer> production to 14 million tons in 1987 and to 19 million tons in 1996. By 1988, modern varieties were planted on half of the country's <answer>rice</answer>lands, including 98 percent of the irrigated areas. In 2008 <answer>rice</answer> production was estimated at 50 million tons.
What is the major farming production crop in Burma? 
rice