At a Government Agriculture Research Station at Hmawbi, north of Rangoon, Burma, paddy fields are ploughed and rice planted.

Various shots of men ploughing a paddy field. Men sowing rice seeds; they scatter handfuls into the water. Field of rice seedlings. Small batches of rice in numbered plots. Two men pull up handfuls of rice for transplanting. Carrying bundles of rice. The bundles are thrown into a paddy field. A line of girls or young women, all uniformly dressed, plant the rice by hand.

Notes

The dopesheet remarks that this coverage is incomplete owing to the cameraman's admission to hospital.

In postwar south east Asia the food supply was a critical issue, and the loss of supplies of Burmese and Thai rice contributed to the 1943 Bengal famine. The dopesheet also records that this film was shot on behalf of the Special Commissioner to South East Asia, Lord Killearn, who was charged with coordinating the food issue.