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