There are also 35 Seed Farms (SF), 17 Research Stations (RS), 53 Horticultural Farms (HF), 10 Field Crops Farms (FCF) and 5 Crop Substituting Farms (CSF) in the opium cultivation areas under the Myanmar Agriculture Service. Among them all Horticultural
Farms, FCF and CSF are performing extension activities which are related to crop production, horticultural crop production, crop protection, systematic fertilizer application and soil and water management under the supervision of the Agricultural Extension Division (AED). All the extension activities of the state and divisional research stations are organized
by the Central Agricultural Research Institute (CARI)
and the other extension activities related to pure seed
production and seed multiplication are organized by
the Seed Division. AED has the responsibility of seed