ASEAN Good Agricultural Practices (ASEAN GAP)
Seminar on the Implementation of ASEAN Good Agricultural Practices 27 – 29 May 2015, Kuala Lumpur
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ASEAN Community Building • ASEAN Community by 2015
Roadmap for an ASEAN Community (2009-2015) ü ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) Blueprint ü ASEAN Political and Security Community Blueprint ü ASEAN Socio-Cultural Community Blueprint ü Initiative for ASEAN Integration (IAI) Workplan II
ASEAN Economic Community (AEC)
– A single market and production base – with free flow of: • Goods, Services, Investment, capital and skilled labour
– A highly competitive economic region, – A region of equitable economic development, and – A region fully integrated into the global
ASEAN Economic Community (AEC)
A7. Food, Agriculture and Forestry • 38. Enhance intra- and extra-ASEAN trade and long-term competitiveness of ASEAN’s food, agriculture and forestry products/commodities.
• 39. Promote cooperation, joint approaches and technology transfer among ASEAN Member Countries and international, regional organisations and private sector. • 40. Promote ASEAN agricultural cooperatives as a means to empower and enhance market access of agricultural products, to build a network mechanism linking agricultural cooperatives, and to fulfil the purpose of agricultural cooperatives for the benefit of farmers in the region.
GAPs in ASEAN region
Q GAP
Malaysian Good Agricultural Practices
IndoGAP
Singapore GAP-VF
ASEAN GAP
Viet GAP
GAP QV
PhilGAP
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ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) • Food, Agriculture and Forestry
– Enhance intra- and extra-ASEAN trade and long-term competitiveness of ASEAN’s food, agriculture and forestry products/commodities.
• Harmonise the safety and quality standards for horticultural produce and agricultural products of economic importance in the ASEAN region by 2015.
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ASEAN GAP - FV
Recently endorsed ASEAN agricultural best practices (2014): • The ASEAN Guidelines for Good Aquaculture Practices on Food Fish – ASEAN GAqP
• The ASEAN Good Animal Husbandry Practices - ASEAN GAHP
• The ASEAN Standard for Organic Agriculture - ASOA
ON-GOING ACTIVITIES RELATED TO GAP IN AMSs
• Establishment of national GAP (C,L M)
- Government legislation/ regulation related to GAPs - Establishment of TWG to manage GAP programme - Establishment of an inspection body - developed national branding and logo for national GAP. - Training for stakeholders : inspectors and farmers on GAP - Public awareness on GAP (TV, Poster, Field Day etc)
• Promotion and implementation of national GAP programmes in AMSs (ASEAN-7)
- Alignment of national GAPs with ASEAN GAP (B, I,M, P, S, - Public awareness (television, pamphlet, exhibition, cooking class etc) - Capacity building/ Training for GAP for stakeholder (government
officers, growers/ farmers/ champion, fruits supplier, exporters) - Pilot farms and Certification of farms - Establishment of a Good Agricultural Practices (GAP) Teams
(RGTs) to provide direct assistance to farmers in understanding contents of the GAP and implementing it at the farm level.
Way forward
• Certification and Accreditation Mechanism to implement ASEAN agricultural best practices.
• Private sector engagement, buy-in/adoption
• Mobilisation of resources, cooperation and partnership arrangement to support ASEAN agricultural best practices
Thank you
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