SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE

SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE

SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE

MYANMAR, Taunggyi and Kyaing Tong

Objective

To ameliorate farmers’ knowledge and competences in rural areas

Beneficiaries

2406 farmers,  41 rural villages

Partners

Ministry of agriculture, Department of Social Welfare (DSW), local Communities, Metta Development Foundation

Donors

PIME foundation, CEI, OBOS

PROJECT

The project, started up since 2006, aims to promote an ecological and sustainable agricultural development, in rural areas of Shan States.

In order to reach this goal we’re providing different agricultural trainings:

  • Mid and long term crops
  • Cultivation technologies
  • Agriculture mechanization

We’re doing this through the methodology of Farmer Field School. Through the development of model farms farmers are being trained through direct  examples.

During last few years we’ve pointed a lot about land management and ownership, lots of farmers didn’t have property certificate of lands they were cultivating and in 2018 the ministry of Agriculture identified this as a major challenges in its own strategic plan. Land tenure is an important topic for our training, in order to fight land grabbing and make farmers the legal owners of their lands.

For this reason we’re providing specific trainings in which villagers are defining villages’ maps and lands ownership, acting as a bridge among villagers and institutions for their certifications of ownership.

CONTEXT

Myanmar is a predominantly rural country: most of population(72%) lives in rural areas and agriculture and related activities still are main income sources.

Agriculture developed way less than other countries in the same area, as China, Vietnam or Laos, while the potential of natural resources is very high.

Myanmar main challenges in agricultural field are following: lack of extensive agriculture, few agricultural associations, lack of infrastructures.

Cultivated lands are the 16,7% of the total territory, and on the 2/3 of cultivable lands are for rice growing and agricultural mechanization is still at the beginning.

 

SUPPORTED VILLAGES

FARMERS

TRAININGS

MODEL FARM

PROVIDED MACHINES

NEWS

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REFORESTATION

REFORESTATION

REFORESTATION

MYANMAR, Kyaing Tong

Objective

Prevention and reduction of impact of deforestation and climate change in Shan State

Beneficiaries

386 farmers,  42 rural villages

Partners

Ministry of Agriculture, Deparment of Social Welfare (DSW), Local Commuinities, Department of forestry in Kyaing Tong

Donors

PIME foundation, CEI, OBOS

PROJECT

The project, started up in 2014, aims to reduce the impact of growing deforestation and of soil erosion in last few years due to the implementation of agricultural techniques which aren’t eco-friendly at all.  

This project is rising from the understanding that awareness alone is not enough to safeguard forestry reserve, but it is necessary also to offer to local population also interesting alternatives. Coffee and tea are plants which find in forestry ambience the perfect conditions to grow, and investment in those crops it’s the key to protect the forest and, at the same time, to grant a good income to farmers in the area. 

For this reason we decided to start agricultural trainings to promote those crops, good agricultural practice and techniques to prevent soil erosion, sustainable farming.  Land tenure is also an important topic for our training, in order to fight land grabbing and make farmers the legal owners of their lands.

Meanwhile the project foresees also the management of nurseries for the distribution of plants for reforestation of specific areas, previously deforested for the cultivation and then abandoned, and also the formation of “Forestry preservation” groups in villages.

CONTEXT

Myanmar is a predominantly rural country: most of population(72%) lives in rural areas and agriculture and related activities still are main income sources.

Deforestation is one of the biggest challenges in Myanmar, especially in Kyaing Tong area.

Most of the territory is occupied by forests, from which the population is gaining firewood and construction wood. In rural villages they’re using firewood to cook and for heating; even in bigger city, such as Kyaing Tong, 90% of families is still using wood to cook or for productive activites such as tea drying.

Furthermore we should consider also Thek trafficking, an high-quality wood which grows especially in those forests and whom commerce is not always legally managed.

In this area, as in the whole country, there isn’t any plan about forestry management which rules the deforestation.

If we’re not able to act a global level, then it’s essential to reduce the impact of deforestation through simple actions directly into the villages.

 

VILLAGES

FARMERS

COFFEE/TEA PLANTS PLANTED

FRUIT PLANTS PLANTED

SCIONS DISTRIBUTED

NEWS

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