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Developing Improved Farming and Marketing
Systems in Rainfed Regions of Southern Lao PDR
Pheng Sengxua
Len Wade
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Project Background
• Southern Laos identified for risk of hunger & poverty
• Government recognises an economy in transition
• Constraints to production, market risk, labour, …
• Potential with rice, livestock, diversification …
• Multidisciplinary team for strategic & adaptive research
• ACIAR Project CSE/2009/004 – AUD $5.16 m
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Rainfed upland and lowland in southern Laos
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Project Objectives
• Diagnose and integrated assessment of farming & marketing systems
• Optimisation, testing and adaptation of crop and livestock technologies and marketing/extension approaches
• Sharing of knowledge and pilot scaling out of varieties, crop and livestock technologies and marketing approaches
• Alleviation of constraints posed by drought and uncontrolled flooding
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Project Strategy• Transect: lowland to upland, commodity to subsistence
• Systems research at 4 Research Hubs & associated districts
- Lowland Savannakhet (SVK)
- Transitional lowland/upland SVK
- Upland SVK
- Lowland Champassak (CPK)
• Adaptive on-farm research at 300 farms in 24 villages
• Scaling out in partnership with various groups
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Project location
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Research Themes
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Socio-economic Consultation with DAFO
• Discussed district statistics, plans• Discussed key agro-ecological zones in
the district• Selected 3 representative villages for
each zone
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Study the effect of supplementary water, fertilizer on rainfed lowland rice productivity
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Multi-location lowland rice variety testing
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Amendment of sandy soil with clays (Bentonite and organic matter)
Thasano station
Phonngam station
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Trained PAFO and DAFO staffs on Experimental layout and data collection
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Post rice crop in dry season
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Multi-location test of lowland, aerobic and perennial rice varieties
Lowland
Perennial
Aerobic rice
GAP
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Nutrient management in lowland rice field
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Livestock and Forages Component
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Germplasm evaluation
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Establishment of forage plantation in farmers’ filed
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Farmer participatory trials of WST in DS
To demonstrate WST (e.g. alternate wetting and drying or AWD) at the farmers’ fields in Savannakhet and Champassak;
To quantify the amount of water saved and water use efficiency by using AWD
Photos by Ben Samson
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Testing aerobic and submergence rice
varieties
Flooded tolerant variety Aerobic rice variety
Pond water monitoring
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Knowledge sharing
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Conclusion• Develop and demonstrate technology for
farmers
• Cooperate with ADB-IFAD project to investigate the farming technologies in that project areas
• Participatory research of rainfed lowland and upland farmers
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Conclusion (cont)
• Impact of the project results: on livelihood, income and on sustainability of farming systems
• Improving capacity building of NAFRI, PAFO and DAFO (Master and PhD)
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Conclusion (cont)• Adaptation of flooded and drought rice varieties
• Understanding the interaction of water x fertilizer x rice variety
• Found new forage varieties and technology for increasing livestock production and marketing option for farmers
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