ROME - A UN food agency is appealing for $33.5 million to help small farmers and fishermen in cyclone-hit Myanmar.

The Rome-based Food and Agriculture Organization says 75 per cent of farmers in the country's main food-producing region lack sufficient seed.

There is little time left before the end of the planting season in August.

The agency says more than 50,000 small-scale farming households and 99,000 landless rural households need immediate assistance.

More than 100,000 fishermen have also been affected.

Nearly 8,000 square kilometres of rice paddy fields were submerged when Cyclone Nargis struck in May and up to 85 per cent of seed stocks were destroyed.

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