1. 300 Community members learnt about the water quality problem of the river, toxic from chemical
fertiliser/pesticide and community waste ? increased members of the group to 250 members.
2. Emergence of Centre for Eco-Agricultural Promotion to be used as demonstration plot for natural
agriculture
3. 15 members have successfully put into actual practice the natural agriculture and no more rely on
chemical substance.
4. Initiative to produce chemical-free rice and vegetable


Participatory Evaluation: ( 2 April 2001 )


Participants:
1. 46 members of committee of Phong River Conservation Network
2. 15 committee members of the Phong River Conservation Group at Ban Tha Ma Dua
3. The grantee representing by105 community /committee members of the Phong River Conservation Group at Wangchai

Methods: One day seminar in which the following issues were put for discussion

1.How is the increased conservation awareness and responsibility of the target communities exhibited ?
2.How important do communities regard the natural agricultural approach ? How is this approach put into actual practice ?
3.How do communities rate the performance of the grantee ?

Impact:

1.Communities have exhibited increased conservation awareness by enrolling in the membership of the grantee with mobilized resources of Baht: 120,000: , on-going activities and established cooperatives with clear mandate on environment protection i.e.
-Supporting husbandry activities aiming to set-up Organic Fertilizer Fund
-Promotion of community rice mill establishment aiming to utilize rice husk/bran as constituents for organic fertilizer
-Promotion of chemical-free rice/vegetable plantation
These activities are being financially supported by the Community Organization Development Institute.

2. The future trend for community livelihood will be chemical-free agriculture-oriented. Even though, there has been no significant government cooperation, it is expected that it will be realized so that the issue of chemical substance in agriculture is solved.

Future Plan:

1. Finding out that participation had been limited, the project would solve this problem by collective business, especially production of chemical-free rice/vegetable for sales.
2. The weak marketing of the grantee would be solved by setting up a community cooperatives (done) to serve as a centre for marketing for members.
3. The community cooperatives would also serve as a mediator to borrow money from other financial institute such as BAAC and lend to members to carry on environmentally-friendly agri-business.
4. In order to reduce the labourious and clumsy process of applying organic fertilizer in power form, a facility to pellet the fertilizer is being built.