Thailand Workplan
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Transcript of Thailand Workplan
Discussion points
•Province selection
•Abiotic and biotic stress information needed
•Food security issues relation to province selection
•Policy baseline & strategy e.g cross visits
•Soil quality improvement – how to measure it
•Is this about intensification or other crops
Relevant background and current status
The rainfed LMB region is inhabited by 60 million people, with one-third
living on less than one dollar per day. For example, in Northeast Thailand, the
largest rice area in the country with the greatest number of farms (2.7 million);
income per capita is less than 40% of the national average, and the incidence of
poverty is high, affecting 37% of the population (Matsuo, 2002). Although, Thailand
is a food surplus country at the macro level, however in terms of food accessibility at
the household level, it remains a problem, particularly in the rural remote areas of
Northeast and North region. A recent increase in food price and production cost has
inevitably impacted on Thailand’s rural poor. With a declining purchasing power,
these poor households face the risk of food insecurity. For overcoming these crises, it
is suggested that empowering small-scale famers capacity building based on
sufficiency economy concept is necessary for further development. This can work if it
is coupled with farm productivity enhancement through agricultural research and
development investment including on-farm resource management for enhancing the
resource-use efficiency under the broader umbrella of sustainable agriculture
development.
OBJECTIVE PURPOSE AND EXPECTED RESULTS
Objective
To contribute to enhance resilience of rainfed farmers of Northeast and North region of Thailand confronting climate change and food insecurity
Purpose
Strengthening and supporting the farmer’s
participatory action research work and policy
dialogue for smallholder agriculture
development under the broader umbrella of
sustainable agriculture development in the context of climate change
Results to be achieved Facilitation and inputs received from concerned ministry for policy dialogue
at Regional and National Planning and Inception Workshops, annual
national workshops, and final project workshop
Two provincial coordinators, one for each province responsible for
supervision of farmer’s participatory action research at province level (one
for each province) identified and recruited from concerned ministries at
provincial level
Six districts trainers, three from each province, identified from local
ministries to support and facilitate the training at district level.
SPECIFIC ACTIVITIES
Deliberate and provide inputs for policy dialogue for
smallholder agriculture development under the broader
umbrella of sustainable agriculture development in the context
of climate change at workshops. Participate in Farmers’ field
Day.
Identify provincial coordinator and district trainer from
concerned ministries
Assist in participatory rural appraisal work
Provide coordination supervision to farmers’ participatory
action research
SPECIFIC ACTIVITIES
Assist in organizing LMU workshop in
collaboration with AIT
Support and facilitate training at district
level
work closely with national
researchers/academic institutions, local
NGOs and AIT
Provide annual report to AIT
COMMENCEMENT DATE & PERIOD OF IMPLEMENTATION
The period of implementation of the contract will be < 57 (fifty seven) months
REQUIREMENT
Personnel
A policy person from concerned ministries
Two provincial coordinators from concerned ministries
Six district trainers from concerned ministries
Policy Ministry of Agriculture and Cooperatives
Policy of restructure the agricultural economy
Production Development for Sustainable Agriculture
Food Security : By promoting the reasonable production of food crops and energy. Allocating production for sufficient consumption and renewable of energy which emphasizes on the importance of the food.
Organic : Promotion of organic farming to farmers to comply with environmental friendly production.
Regeneration / Conservation land : Promoting the planting Vetiver grass at highland to prevent soil erosion and planting green manure as soil conditioner
province
District
Sub-
district
village
Number of
population
Phitsanulok
9
93
1,048
842,507
Surin
17
159
2,119
1,377,827
province
total area (hectare)
Agricultural area
Paddy field
Phitsanulok
1,081,585.44
507,963.84
268,541.76
Surin
812,405.1
650,686.88
578,079.2
province
Rainfall (mm/year)
Average
temperature (°C)
Relative
humility (%)
Phitsanulok
1,333.79
27.67
71.30
Surin 1,390.32 27.18 71.28
Activities Activity
partner
province time
Phitsa
nulok
Surin total
Training (AIT) Super adviser - co-province : rice
department 2 peoples/ province
2 2 4 June-Dec
2013
Training (in
province)
- Smart officer : researcher and
extension worker (Rice department
and Department of Agricultural
Extension )
3 3 6 May-Nov
2014-
2016
- Smart farmers: select 8 / district 24 24 48 May-Nov
2014-
2016
Action plan (first year)
Activities Semeter 1 semeter 2
4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
1. Appointment PMU
coordinator
2. Identify one local
coordinator
3.Site selection (District
and farmers selection)
4. Baseline survey
5. Community forum
Action plan Activities Semeter 1 semeter 2
Yr 2-4 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
1. Demonstration
plot
2. Experiment
- Land preparation
and Seedling
preparation
- Tillering
- Flowering
- Harvesting
2.Field day
3.Monitoring and
evaluation
4.After action
review