AFP, Aye Ywar :
A free app on farmer San San Hla’s smartphone is her new weapon in the war against the dreaded stem borer moth that blighted her rice paddy in southern Myanmar for the last two years.
As she watches her workers haul in this year’s harvest, the 35-year-old is in a triumphant mood, ascribing her victory over the seasonal scourge to advice received via the app about effective pesticide use.
“We used to just farm the way our parents showed us,” she told AFP, in her village of Aye Ywar west of Yangon.
