In most parts of the country there are two harvests, as generally in India.
The periodicity of the seasons usually allows two, and sometimes three, harvests in the year, but not necessarily, nor indeed usually, from the same fields.
With good harvests and good markets the standard of living in Burma has much improved.
This immigration was also stimulated by the terrible condition of western Europe between 987 and 1060, when it was visited by an endless succession of bad harvests and epidemics.
The impost upon land is based upon the cadastral survey independently of the vicissitudes of harvests.
