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.