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Cambodia’s Minister supports environmental friendly plant protection in promoting sustainable agriculture
Writer: Samorn Channa, ASEAN Sustainable Agrifood Systems H.E Veng Sakhon, Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (MAFF) recently received a visit of agricultural representatives from five International development cooperation projects and organisations to discuss constraints in promoting the sustainable agriculture systems in Cambodia. The six representatives came from the German International Cooperation (GIZ), ASEAN Sustainable …
Be My Guest programme, NBT World Thailand, 17 September 2016: Special Interview with ASEAN Sustainable Agrifood Systems
Writer: Agriculture and Food Cluster Team https://youtu.be/VQ0vADHDD8I Dr. Matthias Bickel, Director of ASEAN Sustainable Agrifood Systems talks about the ASEAN-German development cooperation in agriculture and how the project creates extra 15 million Euro for ASEAN farmers in a TV programme ‘Be My Guest’, NBT World, Thailand.
Food safety project manager says the government body would complete her missing jigsaw.
Writer: Napaporn Rattanametta and Rojana Manowalailao, ASEAN Sustainable Agrifood Systems ‘I have missed but I have gained…’ Food safety project manager reflects on her past to better the future. A question raised at a market linkage workshop I recently attended in Indonesia made me look back and ask myself: What could I have done better …
From mango orchards to consumers: Value chain analysis makes sure we all get our juicy bits
Writer: ASEAN Sustainable Agrofood Systems Vietnam Team Vietnamese participants learned how they were linked in a value chain of mango to understand their roles and relations in developing mango production in Vietnam. Twenty actors in the value chain of mango participating in a one-day workshop “Value Chain Analysis of Mango” in Dong Thap Province included …
What does the Philippines want for sustainable plant industry?
Writer: Rojana Manowalailao, ASEAN Sustainable Agrifood Systems Interview with Chief of Crop Pest Management Division Ms. Wilima Cuaterno talks to ASEAN Sustainable Agrifood Systems about the agriculture sector in the Philippines, challenges, and necessary supports. Agriculture sector in the Philippines “Agriculture is the backbone of the Philippine economy. Rice is the most important crop since …
Food Standard for ASEAN: VDO launched
https://www.youtube.com/embed/_dy6qG0BV_U Consumers increasingly want information and assurance about what they eat, but are often overwhelmed by the many different kinds of food standards. To explain food standards and why they are important for the ASEAN region in a concise and visual manner, the GIZ-supported project Standards in the Southeast Asian Food Trade (SAFT) produced a …
Mid-season rice area and irrigated rice yield forecast 2016: Thailand
BULLETIN – Thailand, 2016 Wet Season – Volume 1 Mid-season rice area and irrigated rice yield forecast for the 2016 Main Wet Season in Thailand Rice area progression in the early stage of the 2016 Wet Season (as of mid of July 2016) in Thailand is presented in this report. The rice …
ICTs in agriculture: Option for solutions
Writer: Wannipa Soda, ASEAN Sustainable Agrifood Systems “Setting in place a national e-agriculture strategy is an essential first step for any country planning on using ICTs for agriculture” The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the International Telecommunication Union (TIU), together with support from partners including the Technical Centre for Agriculture and Rural Cooperation (CTA), …
Public-Private Partnership cooperation on sustainable pepper initiative project in Vietnam kicked off
Writer: Nguyen Thanh Binh, Senior Project Officer, ASEAN Sustainable Agrifood Systems (ASEAN SAS) Over the last three decades, pepper cultivation has expanded rapidly in the southern and central regions of Vietnam. Today, the country is the world’s largest producer and exporter of pepper. But, the misuse of chemical products leads to high production costs and …