Partnership Report

Vietnam Taskforce

Fruits and Vegetable Group

Tuesday 22 September 2015

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OUR PURPOSE

To introduce best practices for sustainably improving

crop yields and quality for fruits and vegetable farming

via the establishment of an experimental farm in

Lamdong province. The farm will demonstrate best

practices and provide education and will measure the

impact on local farmers in terms of yields and quality.

Initial focus will be on potato, if the model is successful

it can be replicated and scaled up for other crops and

locations.

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Processing New Variety Introduction & Sprout Inhibitor Registration

ProgressProgress

- FL2215 is in a final stage for commercial approval from MARD

- FL2027: mass trial production upcoming season for a registration

- Crisp4All: being conducted trials for registration from one of PepsiCo Vendors to use in the North both for processed as well as table potatoes

- Expanding wet season using FL2215

- Sprout inhibitor trial and registration

- Introduce one new variety into farming system every two years

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New Development and ChallengeNew Development and Challenge

- Registration: long process; hard to apply new, and advanced varieties or products in to Agriculture to tackle the challenge of supply chain, i.e lower the cost (can we leverage the test results from other countries where it applicable to our country?)

- Seed technology: provide advanced variety as well as low cost seeds to farmers locally (Government supports)

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Training and Rewarding

FARMER TRAINING AND REWARDING (Photos: 2013-2014 crop)FARMER TRAINING AND REWARDING (Photos: 2013-2014 crop)

- Annually training farmers on potato cultivation practices

- Reward best farmers with token, prize, and certificate of recognition

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LOCAL POTATO VOLUME GROWTH

- Exploring potatoes exportation to nearby countries – No available CIPC (sprout inhibitors) prevent stored potatoes exportation

- The dry season in Vietnam is also a good season on nearby countries

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Facility for Sustainable Entrepreneurship and Food Security (FDOV) potato project

Growing out of poverty with potato

Completed successful first potato season

Trained 519 farmers in potato production in the Red River Delta

62% of trainees was female

14 potato production advisors trained to provide farmers extension services during coming potato season in North-Vietnam

Two potato demonstration farms established

Hai Duong

Lam Dong

Consumer survey among 1,000 consumers in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City

Potato variety Sinora added on the national list of varieties to be commercially sold in Vietnam

Selected potato production enhancing equipment

Semi-automatic potato planter Side shaker potato digger

34 HP tractor