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Farmers greet Indonesia’s DG for food crops with pest discussion
Writer: Rojana Manowalailao, ASEAN Sustainable Agrifood Systems When Indonesian Agriculture Ministry’s Director General for Food Crops visits a Farmer Field School in North Sumatra’s Nagur Village, Indonesia, farmers are discussing about pest and diseases they regularly spot in their rice fields among their farmer classmates. The class is part of the Better Rice Initiative Asia …
Challenges in Lao crop sector discussed in the country’s newly launched ‘Development Strategy’
In Lao PDR, the population is forecasted to reach 7,5 million and 8.3 million in 2020 and 2025 respectively and these figures do not include tourists who visit the country by 3 million times per year, according to the ‘Development Strategy of the Crop Sector 2015 and Vision 2030’ recently launched by Lao’s Department of …
Winding road trip with the Indonesian Director-General for Food Crops
Writer: Rojana Manowalailao, ASEAN Sustainable Agrifood Systems Left and right and right and left… Traveling from Kabanjahe to Perbulan Village of Karo Regency of Indonesia requires a lot of concentration and attention. While many several curves in this long and winding road can be exhausting and tiring but for the Indonesian Agriculture Ministry’s Director-General for …
Policy Dialogues organized in Lao PDR and Myanmar discussing priority actions for improving national food and nutrition security
Writer: Duangruetai Surasakjinda, ASEAN Sustainable Agrifood Systems With a new set of Sustainable Development Goals on the table to be formally adopted by world leaders at the UN Sustainable Development Summit on 25 – 27 September 2015, food and nutrition security remains one of the top priorities of the post-2015 global development agenda. The governments …
Farmers and pesticide retailers to get trained in integrated pest management in Vietnam
CropLife International and GIZ recently agreed on carrying through a training programme for farmers and pesticide retailers called “Promotion of Integrated Pest Management to address plant hopper outbreaks in Rice”. ASEAN Sustainable Agrifood Systems (ASEAN SAS) is implementing this project in the context of the Better Rice Initiative Asia (BRIA) together with Vietnam’s Plant Protection Department …
Life outside a coconut shell: Food safety auditor raises different perspectives to fruit juice standard
Writer: Rojana Manowalailao, ASEAN Sustainable Agrifood Systems Napaporn Rattanametta compared her life as a frog living in a coconut shell. With her nine-year experiences working in Thailand’s fruit juice industry she thought she knew a lot, but after starting working in a private partnership project “Improved Product Safety and Quality for the Thai Fruit Juice …
High level ‘Policy Dialogue’ discussing national policies on food and nutrition security in Myanmar
Myanmar has been preparing the Development of National Action Plan for Food and Nutrition Security (2015), which will provide a strategy for strengthening the agricultural food and energy sector, including nutritious food production. U Naing Kyi Win, Deputy Director-General of the Department of Agriculture said during his opening and keynote speech at a high level …
A ‘Green Fungi’ improves farmers’ life
Writer: Kristina Spantig, ASEAN Sustainable Agrifood Systems Mr Sun Song is a farmer in the Siem Reap province in Cambodia. He has been using an organic fertilizer and pesticide called Trichoderma to protect his cucumbers and string beans from harmful fungal infestation and to improve the growth of his crops for the past year. Trichiderma …
MoU signed in Indonesia highlighting environmentally friendly production to meet increasing food demands
Writer: Giri Arnawa, ASEAN Sustainable Agrifood Systems Indonesia ASEAN-German Programme on Response to Climate Change in Indonesia (GAP-CC) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding between GIZ Indonesia and Indonesia Agency for Agriculture Research and Development (IAARD), Ministry of Agriculture Republic of Indonesia on 14 July 2015 in Jakarta, Indonesia. “Through GAP-CC, GIZ has ambitious plans …