Siem Reap, December 2011

Development Intervention 8:
Support of value chains in handicraft, fruits and vegetables in Siem Reap Province

Name Mr. Kang Phalla

Position EFK

Reporting period During the December, 2011

Main Activities

· Go to Publish works and Transportation Department to do the motor transferring from GIZ to PDA

· Assisting the 2 field day in Tropangtrom village, Sout Nikum district and Sophy village, Kungtrung commune, Bakong district. The participants each event at less 20 villager was jointed and come from different village. The field day conduct in Tropang Trom village was about cucumber planting with new technology ( drip irrigation and plastic cover ) use good quality seed ( EW seed ) and planting follow by new technique was introduce by Regional Economic Development Program/Green-Belt Siem Reap Province. Mr. Oun the owner of farm and the input supplier as well said : actually vegetable cultivation it is important source of income for rural residents, for my plot (50m*100m) I could harvest more than 2T and the price for this year is quite good as well ( 1000 Riel/Kg ). Vegetable cultivation is quite hard a little bit but it is better than we go far away to find the job such as garment worker, construction worker or other works, if we try to growing vegetable regularly and take more attention as much as we work outside so the profit come out of the vegetable farming it will be better than that works, He added. The other field day was conducted in Sophy village, Kungtrung commune about ridge gourd planting which the owner use the good seed ( EW seed ) and cultivation follow new technique so that farm is getting the good result, in this event the attendances were come from different 3 district.

· Attending the meeting in main office about to show overall RED program to GIZ deputy

· Field visit producers in Bosthom, Somrong, Sombat, Domreychlong, Chouk, Sophy, Sreta and Bakompleung village.

· Field visit collectors (7 collectors was met) to gather information relation to market demanding and popular vegetable in the markets and some constrain of them with producers and counsel some technical support and dialogue concept about Farmer Group creating by the collectors indicate their producers who are enthusiasm to this concept and keen to catch up this opportunity.

· Field visit Demo farm (6 demo was met) to advise some technique issue, and supporting the book keeping writing.

· Field visit input supplies (3 input supplies) to gather information about seed selling, pesticide and fungi and provide technical support.

· Attending meeting with PDA Deputy Director to talk about:

1, Overview of RED objective and activities 2008-2011

2, Presentation of strategy for 2012-13 and discussion

3, Presentation of draft plan of Operation 2012 and discussion

4, Coordination arrangements between PDA and GIZ and responsibilities in implementation of plan of operation

· Meeting with new network (collectors) in Tatrav, Sophy and Sret leck villages.

· Attending the monthly meeting in PDA office

1, Participants:

- Varine district

- Brasat Bakong district

- Pouk district

- Ching Kreng distict

- Kralanh district

- Mr. Ros Kum net (EW seed)

- Mr. Phum Dara (EW seed)

The meeting was discussed about overall result of the partner staff in implementation program in December, 2011 and problem encounter during execution, after we had consolidate the problem issue such as:

- Insect and Diseases

- Lack of EW seed variety to provide new target area

- PDA staff request to program about herbicide for pineapple planting

- PDA staff request to the program to provide the training about rice seed purify technique.

Next steps

· Attending the field day on – 04/01/12 about bitter gourd in Bakkompleung village, - 17/01/12 about bitter gourd in Sophy village, -

· Field follow up Demo farm and advising

· Field follow up and advice producers networks in Prasatbakong District and Sout Nikum District.

· Field visit with collector networks and activities expand to new collector in local and advising some technical support

· Field visit the input supply to gather the information about the change of producer of using vegetable seed using and insecticide using and advising some technique

· Discuss with the producers and collector networks about Farmer Group of vegetable growing

· Attending the training course to the farmers conduct by EW seed

Siem Reap, October 2011

Development Intervention 8:
Support of value chains in handicraft, fruits and vegetables in Siem Reap Province

Name Mr. Kang Phalla

Position EFK

Reporting period During the October, 2011

Main Activities

- Meeting collectors network

- Most of their producers can’t growing anything because of has many rain fall

- All the vegetable was injure by rain therefore they can’t purchase vegetable products go to market is regularly, the collector could purchase in 2 day interval and low down quantity, so all this issue is led the price of vegetable on market increasingly high up.

- The Cultivators living dissimilar village such as Somrong, Sombat, Sophy, and Bosthom I had been met and advice some technique in vegetable growing as though how setting line of cropping depend on the season, setting up drainage system of farm, cutting the old leave to prevent downy mildew and tread.

- A grandma 47 years old is the demo farm live in Sombat village said that most of villager in the village was change routine work to adapt new idea such as seeding stage they set up

porch seedbed and cover plastic protect water and insect net using ,so far the villagers never do like that. The planting have good technique could get highyield, Ming Sockha neighborhood said.

-Sophy village the one of the village that our program works with so far, the villager in this village is so active in growing vegetable.

Some of collectors live in the same village said, even this season has much rain and they haven’t the land to grow, they still go to find the high land to do, but unfortunately they encounter many risks such as more water, insect, and diseases.

- On 18 October 2011 a field was conduct in Sophy village, Contrung commune, Bakong district, Siem Reap province, by East West Seed International staff which has 3 villager attending such Tatrav Sophy and Domrey Chlong village in total all participants is 25 villagers.

Agenda of field day are: - Program opening

- The objectives of program are : 1 to show farmer about good experience technique growing ridge gourd of Mrs. Mom Chi and 2 to show quality seed of East West Seed

- Field visit and experience showing of the farm owner

- Experience sharing and question and answering

- Closing program

At that time the owner of farm Mom Chi she has commentated about the experience of ridge gourd growing to the participants, after the commentary of Mom Chi and field visited most of the participants has many questioning to her and show the difficulty of growing. Some said that the vegetable that they planting are facing many problems such downy mildew and insect and rotting from the rain and some time no fruit also. As the moment a villager from Domrey Chlong village had showing experience about planting ridge gourd to the attendances as well, lately after we get all the information we could determine the real of problem are lack of technique in growing of farmer, use the domestic variety that led to get low yield and more disease and insect damaging, fertility using and wrong pesticide/fungicide using. So we had explain to participants more deeply about technique growing, fertilizer using, pesticide/fungicide using and variety select to grow.

Short Report

Main Activities

- Meeting with collectors: to discuss and ask information about price and quantity of vegetable, quantity of producers in village, and problem encounter of producers in growing vegetable.

MingYom she a collector live in Sophy village, Kontrung commune , Bakong district said that: Now day vegetables product is irregular and small amount to buying, In the village have have not farmer growing vegetable because they aren't upland and the busy season

also. Most of villager gone to growing vegetable outside the village like Bosthom village Khar Pou commune. Because of the quantities of producers reduce as of reason above so the quantity of product that is less than other month and have a little variety of vegetable such as Bitter Gourd, Cucumber and Long bean. The quantities of vegetable she could purchase are Bitter Gourd 100Kg/2day, Cucumber 70Kg/2day and Long bean 30Kg/2 day.

Rem Kros he also collector in Bakom pleung village said that Most of famer in this village they are planning to planting cauliflower many family in the village. For the vegetable product is not have enough to purchasing nowadays sometime have no vegetable to the market because of it is difficult to growing during this month and otherwise it is the busy season also.

Sock Yean she is farmer live in Somrong village, Khar Poar commune, Sort nikum district. in her plot bitter gourd 12Kg/3dt she growing vegetable such as wax gourd and bitter gourd and bitter but is not better, because of it has many rain fall and she is not take care enough also, and for the yeild that she could get isay, bitter 6kg/3day. For the next planning she would likeo growing Hot pepper adn egg plant and bitter, the day that she will sowing seedling is middle of September.

Hom Pean live in Somrong village, a hard work famer in village with facing regret of her cucumber which damaged by big rain fall frequently for few day that cause cucumber is water stress and fungi. Event the situation is not good to the cucumber, this farmer still carries on tread and take care it. This cucumber I could harvesting around 500Kg already with the price is 1200r/Kg, therefore my was damaged but i think that am not loses, just get profit little bit only, she said.

The effective of extension of program to farm on vegetable technique that we could note down such as sowing seedling before the farmer always broadcast directly to the soil but right now the change to do porch seedling or using plastic tray to sowing seed before planting.

Professional Group Meeting Rural Development, GIZ
Takeo, September 2011
Development Intervention 8:
Support of value chains in handicraft, fruits and vegetables in Siem Reap Province

Name Mr. Kang Phalla

Position EFK
Reporting period During the meeting September 2011

Participators

Place Workplace Position Contact
Kampong Chhnang PDIME EFK yan_piseth@yahoo.com
Kampong Chhnang CEDAC FK Christian.fink@giz.de
Phnom Penh GIZ LD Andrease.schneider@giz.de
Battambang BFD EFK vannak@bfdkhmer.org
Battambang BFD EFK chanthan_un@yahoo.com
Phnom Penh CORAA FK Winfried.Scheewe@giz.de
Phnom Penh CORAA EFK mithona.ma

o@coraa.org
Siem Reap APSARA FK elke.tigges@giz.de
Siem Reap APSARA EFK stoneconservationunit@yahoo.com
Siem Reap APSARA EFK stoneconservationunit@yahoo.com
Siem Reap APSARA EFK longnary@hotmail.com
Siem Reap APSARA NFP josephin.roesler@giz.de
Siem Reap ERD EFK pholla.kang@gmail.com

Kampong ChhnangTSLRDP (ADB) FK Volker.Kleinhenz@giz.de
Kampong Chhnang TSLRDP (ADB) EFK sophonchea@yahoo.com
Kampong Thom TSLRD

P (ADB) FK Daniel.Diehl@giz.de
Kampong Thom TSLRDP (ADB) EFK nimolsuontms@yahoo.com
Takeo CEDAC FK Claudius.Bredehoeft@giz.de
Takeo CEDAC EFK sn_channa@cedac.org.kh

Phnom Penh KoR KOR Karin.Traenkner-Benslimane@giz.de

Main Activities
- Introduction of participators - Guest speaker Bao Vuthy presentation about Basic SRI and Background
- CORAA presentation about SRI vs organic, binifits and constrains ( Mr. Mithona Mao present )
- Group Discussion : Topic 1 Taking Responsibility

2 Sharing Responsibility

- Mr. Winfried present about Improving farm resilience by observing nature’s principle

- Field trip to visit Organic Rice Prodution Group in Srercheng Commune, Chom Kiri District,

Kompot Province. This FO was created in 2003 which supported by GTZ until 2007 and 2008 – 2009 CEDAC provided the technique. The member until nowday is 369 members and has total land size is 329 ha in producing organic rice production. During 2002-2004 this group could produce organic rice sell to Chuck District , Kompot market, , Konghing Company, CCRD and CEDAC and then in 2007-2008 the group has encounter the difficulty with competitive from many middleman purchasing rice for the member in wet rice selling to other country such as Vietnam, Thailand… So it is the critical problem of the group in competitive purchasing product because the group couldn’t purchase wet rice to sell or to drying (lack of technique drying) otherwise the cost of product is not suitable compare to simple rice.

- Field trip to visit Demo farmer CEDAC in Tramkok district. Those farm has many technology

such as fish raising, ell raising, worm raising, and rice planting, vegetable growing, and frog raising. The owner farm said that before this plot 3000 msq he just planting the rice only one and the rice yield could get only 200-300 Kg per year, so after he had get training from CEDAC about integrate farming he started to developed by himself by step by step until right now, us the result of his activities his farm could get the revenue 1500 USD per year. so that why this result has enable his family livelihood is better.

- Boat trip to Phnom Da

Next steps

· Continue orientation
· Meet collectors and networks
· Select location to start activities
· Start field activities Sept 2011

Picture work in Battambong

Here is some pictures during i am work in Battabang (SANREM Project).

December Report

Agronomes Veterinaries Sans Frontieres
Sanrem Project
December, 2010 Report


1.Executive Summary

Project Name : SANREM
Project Location : Ratanak Modol District, Battambang Province,Cambodia
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Report : December, 2010

2.Introduction
Strong lively on upland cash crops with smallholders in the recent year: officially 300 000 ha in 9 years, likely much more with illegal land conquest done on “public land” uplands represent most of the country land reserve, today mostly classified as “public land but potentially “a locatable” to smallholders through the legal tool “Land Social Concession” For instance Battambang province one of the 2 last stronghold of the Khmer Rouge guerrilla, until the late 90’s and geographic position, western districts of Battambang and Pailin provinces present a specific agrarian situation: larger farm majority between 5-10 ha, upland cultivation and annual cash crop development since early 2000’s under the strong demand of Thai market; initially Soybean was dominant, then Corn, then brutal turn to Cassava mono-cropping. All cropping systems based on ploughing inducing a rapid decline of the soil fertility (OM mineralization, erosion despite good initial level –basaltic and calcareous substratum) and increase of production’s cost (increasing weeds pressure associate to labour price)
According to rapid decline of soil fertility become seriously, to solve this trouble one project namely PADAC-SANREM is implemented through an official partnership between the French government and the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries of Cambodia (MAFF). The main implementing partners are the GDA (General Directory for Agriculture of the MAFF) and the French agricultural research organisation CIRAD. The French NGO AVSF contributes to support Farmers' Organizations (FO) on structuring and marketing, based on 20 years of intervention in the country, one technical was extended call DMC ( Direct Sowing Mulching Base Cropping System ). This technique could be solve rapid decline of the soil fertility and have been designed for Corn, Cassava, Soybean and upland Rice as main crops and can potentially integrates secondary crops as Sesame, Cowpea, Sorghum, pearl Millet, Buckwheat … ; cover crops are principally made with 2 fodder species - Brachiaria ruziziensis (Poaceae) and Stylosanthes guianensis (Legumes).

3.Summary of Activities
- Follow up farmer selling maize and harvesting the farmer that joint with project
- Attending Coordinate Meeting at AVSF in PP For three day
- Insert maize yields data both DMC and Traditional
- Invited farmer to joint exchange visit in Kom Cham
- Communicated with new farmer that intends to participate with project and survey with other farmer in village.
- Take maize sample and flailed weight, temperature, and moisture measuring in Boribo village.
- Discuss with farmer about problem happened in this year such as low yield, insect damaged and weed.
- Insert economic analysis DMC and Non DMC of maize production
- Attending staff retreat at AVSF Kohkong and Kompong Som province during 4 day
No Name of Beneficiary Land size (ha) Yields Kg Selling Price
1 Hul Sockhar 0.96 5485 950 reil/kg
2 Hul Sockhorl 1.10 2781 700 reil/kg
3 Hul Sorn 0.69 2500 980 reil/kg
4 Chear Pholl 0.77 1500 950 reil/kg
5 Chear Chean 4.70 10314 950 reil/kg
6 Ken Lorm 1.58 3700 920 reil/kg
7 Tom Thy 0.77 1418 955 reil/kg
8 Koa Nap 1.08 4000 935 reil/kg
9 Chem Chorn 1.20 4300 935 reil/kg
10 Hem Kay 2.12 8360 1000 reil/kg
11 Prom Oun 0.50 500 861 reil/kg
- Maize yields data of 10 beneficiary joint with project (2010) apply DMC technique
- Totally maize yield is 44358 Kg/14.97 ha which has 10 beneficiary in Boribo village, the highest yield per ha is 5713.5 kg (Hul Sockar Land) and lowest is 1841.5 kg (Tom Thy Land).
- Economic Analysis Income/ha data of Maize production that apply DMC Technique

4.Other Activities
- Communicate with other farmer to study what the interesting with our project or technique
- To build up relationship community and project staff by communication
- To build up relationship with other staff at AVSF during staff retreat, and got more experiences.
5.Major Challenge
Mr. Chim Chorn said: for this year I thought that the maize could get the yield at less 5.5 t/ha because maize density and status are very well but contrary maize get only 4.3t/1.2ha, am really don't believed for this result if I don't harvest by my self. The major factor of this problem I found that one sowing late, two maize seed variety, and insect damage, he added. He request that have to sowing to be on time as the farmer in village, and variety selective should be carefully before buying or allow farmer to get by them self.
Some beneficiary want to move their house to other place so it is difficult in collaboration, so they could sell their land that apply technique such as Chear Pholl and Chear Chean family they had advertise to sell the land to get those cash to buy other land low price and has more fertility.

6.Lession Learn
- To know more about attitude farmer during harvesting and selling processing in village.
- Participating in staff retreat and coordinate meeting

7.Future Plan
- Follow up farmer plots
- Attending community meeting
- Broadcasting technique wildly to other villager
- Gathering farmer repay back
- Survey with other farmer in village that intend to joint project
- GPS marking point along plot that apply DMC technique and other that take soil sample
- Attending staff retreat with PADACK
- Meeting with farmer to discuss 2011 planning in collaboration with DMC technical
- Report and Planning and clear advance for next month
8.Budgetting
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Date: 30, December,2010
Write By: Pholla kang, Monitor
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