On 6th to 10th May 2015, SRD teamed up with Yen Bai Plant Protection Sub-Department to hold a refresher training course on “Rice crossing techniques” in Yen Bai. The course is under the broader project “Putting lessons into practice: Scaling up people’s biodiversity management for food security” implemented by SEARICE (Philippines) in collaboration with SRD.
Mr Rene Salazar, an expert from Oxfam Novib
The training course was conducted by technical experts from Oxfam Novib ( Netherlands), Vietnam Plant Protection Department (PPD) , Field Crop Research Institute (FCRI) with the participation of 20 technical officers from the local Plant Protection Sub-Department and key farmers involved in the project in 5 provinces: Thanh Hoa, Hoa Binh, Lao Cai, Yen Bai and Son La.
Mr Ngo Tien Dung- An official of PPD talking about the role of farmers in rice crossing techniques
During the five-days training course, participants reviewed and learnt new knowledge of rice, plant genetic resources (PGR), tools for analysis of genetic resources such as diversity wheel, timeline analysis, breeding cycle and skills or scan the steps of organizing farmer field school. Especially, participants had a chance to practice baseline surveys with farmers in two project sites: Thai Binh and An Binh villages, Bao Ai communes, Yen Binh district.
An offical from PPD training participants to practice emasculation skills
Although the practice session lasted for one day, participants drew lessons learnt when working with farmers and were provided extensive knowledge of setting breeding goals. In the following days, participants reviewed lessons on breeding and then practiced varietal crossing techniques in the class. The course has successfully helped officers and key farmers to draw lesson learnt during project implementation from 2012 as well as put the learnings into practice in project sites.
Participants and trainers
***The project “Putting lessons into practice: Scaling up people’s biodiversity management for food security” mainly funded by IFAD and Oxfam Novib through SEARICE. SEARICE cooperated with SRD, PPD, FCRI to implement its project in five provinces in Vietnam: Thanh Hoa, Hoa Binh, Yen Bai , Lao Cai and Son La from 2012 to 2015. The project is expected to finish during October 2015
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