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