YANGON, May 6 (Reuters) - Cyclone-battered Myanmar has enough rice for domestic consumption despite damage to some grain stored in the Irrawaddy delta, a minister in the military government said on Tuesday.

"I think there was some damage to rice stored by private merchants and growers, but we have enough surplus for domestic sufficiency," Information Minister Brigadier General Kyaw Hsan told a news conference in the badly-damaged former capital of Yangon.

(Reporting by Aung Hla Tun; Editing by Grant McCool)

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