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Cambodia
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Country
Report: Click here
to download the report submitted at the meeting of the
Programme Advisory Committee, November 2001 (pdf file)
Highlights:
 | 30,000
farmers have attended rice IPM FFSs, of which, over 10,000 have
been female farmers |
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at least 6 provinces, IPM farmers have grouped together to carry
out field studies and experiments to further improve their
understanding of production constraints |
| 330
IPM farmers have also completed additional training as trainers
themselves (farmer trainers), and are now organising FFSs in their
own areas |
| 2500
farmers (half have been female) have been trained in
vegetable IPM |
| 60
government trainers have attended vegetable IPM training of
trainers courses |
| Farmers
are conducting Farmer Life Schools, which draw on their experience
in IPM Farmer Field Schools. At these schools farmers conduct a
Human Ecosystem Analysis in the same way that they look at the
ecology of their fields. |
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is now a large programme involving rural school children in IPM
FFS through the Ministry of Education, and supported by World
Education with funding from the Asia Foundation |
"Srer
Khmer” – a new organization responding to new needs: To
provide on-going support to the range of activities that have
developed from IPM in Cambodia a new organisation is being
established. This organization is called “Srer Khmer” – which
means the symbolic “Fields” or “Earth” of Cambodia. This
organization will promote ecological agriculture and follow up
activities initiated by farmers who have completed IPM farmer field
schools. It will promote the exchange of information between farmers,
farmer meetings, farmer networks and farmer experimentation. It will
be operating from 1 January 2002. Srer Khmer will be affiliated with
the new regional body – The Field Alliance.
Organisation: Cambodia
joined the 12 other Asian countries that are part of the FAO
Inter-Country Rice Project in 1993. In 1996 Cambodia joined the FAO
Regional Vegetable IPM Programme as well. The Cambodian National IPM
Programme is based at the Department of Agronomy of the MAFF (Ministry
of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries). IPM activities are also
supported and funded by a range of donors such as DANIDA, World Bank,
UNDP, AusAID, EU and NGOs, such as World Education, Norwegian
People’s Aid and Handicap International.
Contact
People:
Government:
Name: Nuth Sakhan
Title: Director, Department of Agronomy
Org: MOAFF
Tel: (855-23) 982 835
Non
Government:
Name: Yech Polo
Title: Coordinator
Org: Field Cambodia (Srer Khmer)
c/o FAO Community IPM
Programme
Tel: (855-23) 215 202
E-mail: polo.ipm@forum.org.kh
DANIDA: Name:
Alida Laurense
Title: Senior Project Adviser
Org: IPM Farmer Training Project
Tel/Fax: (855-23) 720485
Email: alida.danidaipm@bigpond.com.kh
For
more information about IPM in Cambodia, click
here
For
an overview of Farmer Life Schools, click
here
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