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Developing a policy for sustainbale cassava production in Binh Dinh province

In Viet Nam, Cassava plant?s role (Manihot esculenta Crantz) has been quickly converted from crops into industrial plant at a high speed of development in the first years of the 21st century. Viet Nam cassava starch is ranked the second in the world after Thailand. The country has 53 cassava flour processing factories which are in operation with total processing capacity of 2.2-3.8 million tones of fresh cassava per year and 7 factories which are being built.

How to make biological alcohol from cassava (bio ethanol) is being an issue of interest. In 2007, the area of cassava nationwide reached more than 490 thousand ha, increase by 4.7% compared to 2006. Cassava plant requires little investment, simple technique of planting and care, allows active harvesting and planting on slopes of over 30 degrees and in dry regions, therefore, many farmers destroy sugar-cane, even forests without authority for cassava cultivation.

To grow cassava in an effective and sustainable way, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development has directed to minimize the expansion of cassava planting area, especially self-decided planting of cassava in the region already used for planting other plants and the highly sloping areas.

In recent years, in the South Central Coast, the area of cassava plant has been increasing, in 2005 the area was 2.8 times that of 2000, of which Phu Yen, Quang Ngai and Binh Dinh have a highest speed of cassava area expansion. Along with the rapid increase of the area, yield of cassava also increased remarkably from 8.88 tons/ ha in 2000 to 15.97 tons / ha in 2005. Most provinces now have no policy for the sustainable development of cassava.

This fact is alarming because cassava is making land poor quickly leading to the risk of land degradation.

Binh Dinh province with a large area of gray land(AC: Acrisols), which account for 70.7% of the total land area is quite suitable for a number of industrial plants including cassava.

Cassava area of Binh Dinh planned by the province was 10 thousand ha in 2010, but in 2007, it was 13 thousand ha with the capacity of 19 tons / ha. In 2008, the area of cassava will be kept stable at about 12.5 thousand ha, capacity of 21 tons / ha, yield 260 thousand tons, providing enough materials for starch producers.

To solve the problem of land degradation and wild land in mountainous areas and to increase economic efficiency, improve living standards, reduce status of land degradation by planting cassava cultivation, cassava should be sustainably planted.

The objective of the project:
Building policies for supporting sustainable development of cassava to contribute to limiting land degradation and wild land, increasing productivity, quality and increasing income for communities on poor gray land in Binh Dinh

Specific objectives:
- Building and proposing policies for promotion of sustainable cassava production in Binh Dinh province
- Building models of sustainable cassava cultivation on poor gray land.

Main activities:
Policy development:
- Investigating, making PRA surveys for assessment on economic efficiency of land use and degradation of land for cultivation and production of cassava in the whole system of crop cultivation on land on slopes
- Defining the inadequacies in planning, policies relating to cassava production in local areas
- Consulting community and other stakeholders on the results of the investigation and organizing seminars on 1) technical solutions for sustainable cassava cultivation 2) issues relating to policies and planning.
- Making proposals on policies on sustainable production of cassava .

Building models:
- Building models of sustainable cassava cultivation on silver gray land through cassava intensive farming to improve the productivity and cassava sub-products on the unit of ha cultivation and mixed farming techniques between cassava plants and covering bean plants. Scale models: 75-100 households, 30 ha, Cat Lam commune, Cat Hiep, Phu Cat District, Binh Dinh province

- Supporting households participating in the project of models? implementation with the techniques and financial.
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Grantee:

The Gardeners' Association of Binh Dinh

Country:

Viet nam

Area Of Work:

Land Degradation

Operational Phase:

OP4 - Y1 (Jul 07-Jun08)

Grant Amount:

US$ 50,000.00

Co-Financing Cash:

US$ 20,000.00

Co-Financing in-Kind:

US$ 38,855.42

Project Number:

VN/SGP/OP4/CORE/08/004

Start Date:

9/2008

End Date:

9/2011

Status:

Satisfactorily Completed

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Project Characteristics and Results

Capacity - Building Component

- 18 training workshops in the two districts. Contents include: care techniques in crop maturity. - 8 worshops to discuss the economic efficiency of the model after harvest - 10 visits to get people's and local officials? opinions to learn from experience - Visit the cassava project in Dong Nai and Hung Loc research center of the crops (belonging to Ministry of Agricultural & Rural development). Content included learning models and cassava cultivation progress, building the farm production and processing of cassava

Policy Impact

Cassava sustainable development policy based on communities in Binh Dinh was approved

Policy Influence

Cassava sustainable development policy based on communities in Binh Dinh was approved

Gender Focus

Population in Phu Cat commune was 194,100, of which women accounted for 100,200 people.

Emphasis on Sustainable Livelihoods

The natural area of Phu Cat District was 67,247 ha, with population of 194,100, of which women accounted for 100,200 people. The main population was the Kinh and a few was the ethnic Bana people. Agricultural land area: 12,597 ha, accounting for 18.73%, 12 447 ha cultivated area in which 11 417 ha of annual crops, 1179 ha perennial crops, 150 ha ponds. In recent years, Phu Cat concentrated plant varieties with high yield and high quality. 1400 ha of rice and cassava with low yields was changed to plant corn, peanuts, soybeans, tobacco, vegetables ... There were some intensive production areas as 876 ha of hybrid maize; 2013 ha area of intensive cassava, 1849 ha of peanuts... Cassava area was 2550 ha in 2007. Through application of advanced techniques and high-yielding cassava varieties, the yield increased nearly 20 tons / ha. However, there was no mechanism or cassava policy in district.

Notable Community Participation

The project focused on community involvement. In the process of surveying and designing, project had a consulting meeting on the most pressing issues and solutions to solve the problems in cassava cultivation of the people. In implementing process, the project facilitated community participation in all training activities, training, technical assistance and financial resources to build the demonstration model. Traditional knowledge and experience of community was objected to be focus during building models. Community ownership and acquisition of project achievements was done. The project focused on the involvement of the local government where the project was implemented to ensure the success and promote the sustainability of the project

Project Results

- Choosing households participating in the project: Cat Hiep and Cat Lam districts in Phu Cat commune were poor, with infertile soil and large cassava area. Collection of 59 households voluntarily with an area of 15ha in two communes.
- The process of farming model was developed and completed
- Regulation on household loans was discussed, agreed and voluntarily signed, witnessed and certified by Communal People Committee
a / soil conservation results:
- Land was analyzed two times before starting the model (2008) and after ending the model (2010).
The idea of this project to model cassava cultivation peanuts will overcome land degradation due to continuous cassava
Soil analysis results show: there were significant changes in a number of important criteria.
In Cat Hiep district:
+ The pH (KCl): samples analyzed in 2008 was 4.3; samples analyzed in 2010 was 5.8.
+ P205: samples analyzed in 2008 were 0.02; samples analyzed in 2010 were 0.11.
+ K20: samples analyzed in 2008 were 0.13; samples analyzed in 2010 were 0.15.
In Cat Lam district:
- The pH (KCl): samples analyzed in 2008 were 4.2; samples analyzed in 2010 were 4.6.
- P205: samples analyzed in 2008 were 0.04; samples analyzed in 2010 were 0.13.
- K20: samples analyzed in 2008 were 1.61; samples analyzed in 2010 were 1.68.
b / 2009 production results:
In Cat Hiep district:
- peanut productivity in the model: 3.495kg/ha, peanut productivity outside the model: 2.702kg/ha. Productivity in the model increased 29.5%.
The productivity of cassava in the model: 39.6 tons / ha, the productivity of cassava outside the model: 17.760 tons / ha. Increased productivity in the model: 122.97%.
In Cat Lam district:
- peanut productivity in the model: 3214 kg / ha, peanut productivity outside the model: 2886 kg / ha. Productivity in the model increased up to 11.4%.
- The productivity of cassava in the model: 30.28 tons / ha, the productivity of cassava outside the model: 16.085 tons / ha. The productivity in the model increased up to 88.2%.
c / income results in 2009:
In Cat Hiep district:
In the model: Net income of 45.198.000d; net profit of 35.498.000d
outside the model: Net income of 24.630.000d; net profit of 13.530.000d
In Cat Lam district:
In the model: Net income of 34.125.000d, Net profit of 23.725.000d
Outside the model: Net income of 24.906.000d, Net profit of 13.706.000d
Thus, in 2009 net profit of model in Cat Hiep district was 2.6 times as high as the one outside the model, in Cat Lam was 1.75 times as high as the one outside the model.
d / production results in 2010:
About cassava yields:
In Cat Hiep district: the productivity in the model reached 28.330 kg / ha, the productivity outside the model reached 23.750 tons. In conclusions, the productivity in the model was 21% higher than outside the model.
In Cat Lam district: Productivity gained 25.710kg/ha in the model, productivity achieved 15.860kg/ha outside model. It was 62% higher than productivity outside the model.
About peanut productivity:
Cat Hiep district: the productivity in the model reached 3.120kg/ha, outside the model reached 2.520kg/ha. the productivity in the model increased 19.3%
In Cat Lam district: In the model reached 2980kg/ha, outside the model reached 2550kg/ha. the productivity in the model increased 14.5%
e / income results in 2010:
Net Income:
in Cat Hiep district: within the model: 71.183.000d/ha, outside the model: 45.265.000d/ha
In Cat Lam district: within the model: 71.700.000d/ha, outside the model: 44.564.000d/ha
Net profit:
In Cat Hiep district: within the model: 58.933.000d/ha, outside the model: 30.165.000d/ha
In Cat Lam district: within the model: 59.050.000d/ha, outside the model: 32.114.000d/ha

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