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Cambodia: Investing in healthy organic supply chain
Writer: Agriculture and Food Cluster Team A joint initiative of ASEAN-German support and local cooperation in Cambodia sets a comprehensive business service to offer environmental friendly crop protection products to farms and bring safe vegetables from farms to consumers. Eco-Agri Co. Ltd (EAC), cooperation between ASEAN Sustainable Agrifood Systems (ASEAN SAS) and the Khmer Organic …
From fruit to juice: From quality to business security
Writer: Agriculture and Food Cluster Team ASEAN-Germany cooperation sets to support food safety and quality assurance in the South East Asia region and a pilot project in improving fruit juice safety and quality in Thailand is one among the others. Thailand is the world largest exporter of pineapple juice concentrate. It exports the concentrate of …
Demo plots in the Philippines prove rice-based technologies raise yields and income
Covering 57 hectares across three regional sites in Iloilo, Aurora and Southern Leyte, the demo plots were established as a core component of Better Rice Initiative ASIA (BRIA) in the Philippines training curriculum for extension intermediaries and smallholder farmers. The demo plots served as learning sites to contextualize lessons in the training of trainers (ToT) …
Rice is farmer’s happiness: A female rice farmer tells about Integrated Pest Management training and how she becomes happier
The one pest outbreak turned Me The Le, a rice farmer in Dong Thap province, Viet Nam to live in a nightmare of fear. To her, rice is a farmer’s happiness. After attending the Integrated Pest Management training, now she knows how to better protect her crops, and the environment, while preventing pests and diseases, …
Insects: Love-Hate relationships
Writer: Rojana Manowalailao, ASEAN Sustainable Agrifood Systems Many women and men included when seeing insects, they would rather scream or run away. But, for these nine female government officers, they just could not take their eyes off the six insects in front of them. Nine technical officers from seven ASEAN countries; namely Brunei Darussalam, Cambodia, …
Integrated Pest Management in Viet Nam: Trainings, clubs, booklets, and videos
Writer: Nguyen Ngoc Son, project officer for Land and Agriculture, GIZ Vietnam Integrated Pest Management (IPM) sub project under Better Rice Initiative Asia (BRIA) have started in 2015. This IPM project towards sustainable rice cultivation in Mekong Delta is implemented by GIZ, co-financed by Croplife International. BRIA is sister project of ASEAN Sustainable Agrifood Systems. …
Olam International: “Sustainability does not have to come at a premium”
Writer: Bas Merten, Intern supporting the evaluation and presentation of end-results from the ASEAN Sustainable Agrifood Systems (ASEAN SAS) Project Olam International, a global agri-business, shared a method to produce its products and raw materials sustainably without the need to increase their eventual product price. At the same time, they have also managed to increase …
Chemical is out! Cambodian agriculture pushes hard towards biological control agents for sustainability
Writer: Saody So, Marina Moslavac and Rojana Manowalailao, ASEAN Sustainable Agrifood Systems A national forum promoting green agriculture urged for more collaboration in using living organisms for plant protection. The 4th National Forum on Regulation, Use and Trade of Biological Control Agent (BCA) brought together 141 participants from both public and private sectors to showcase …