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CAMBODIA ORGANIC FERTILIZER DISTRIBUTOR

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Ronaldo Estera Regional Program Manager Asia
ICS Asia head ofce D-19 Angkor shopping arcade Siem Reap, Cambodia Ofce: + (855) (0)63 763 528 Mobile: + (855) 97 31 41 051 E-mail: ronaldo.estera@icsasia.org Skype: ics.ronaldo.estera

Joyce Ridderhof Social Business Developer


Smallepad 32 3811 MG Amersfoort The Netherlands Ofce:+ 31 33 303 0250 Mobile:+ 316 43 19 71 28 E-mail: joyce.ridderhof@ics.nl Skype: joyce.ridderhof

Check our website for all our activities: www.ics.nl


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CAMBODIA - ORGANIC FERTILIZER DISTRIBUTOR


ICS (Investing in Children and their Societies) strives towards a better future for children in rural Africa and Asia. Through its projects and programs, it builds on a sustainable growth in welfare and wellbeing by simultaneously investing in economic and social opportunities and needs. The central building blocks of the work of ICS are social business, child protection and skillful parenting. The issue In Northern Cambodia, in Bantaey Meanchey, Oddar Meanchey and Siem Reap province, rice farmers face serious constraints on increasing productivity and output quality. Farming systems are largely subsistence oriented. Most agricultural activity is based on low input and rain fed production systems centered on paddy rice production. In spite of Cambodia having achieved rice self-sufciency (?) and even an exportable surplus, the rice-based farming systems are characterized by low income. The typical farmer growing paddy in these three provinces gets net income per hectare ranging between $35 and $65 per year. The costs for the commercial production of rice, notably for seeds, fertilizer, pesticides and petrol for pumping irrigation water, are dramatically higher than the production costs of subsistence rice farming. With little diversication into other crops and agricultural activities, poverty is pervasive. Food insecurity still remains a major concern in some parts of the country, especially in the Northern part of the country. This is also the part where droughts and oods have occurred frequently. Organic Fertilizer Distribution ICS is giving poor farmers in Oddar Meanchey, Banteay Meanchey and Siem Reap provinces access to organic fertilizer. The farmers in these provinces have currently no access to organic fertilizer. They only make use of chemical fertilizer. Some of the disadvantages of chemical fertilizer are: reduced rice yield after using chemical fertilizer for 3 to 4 years, harmful to human body, and decrease of useful insects in the farm. It is the intention of ICS, together with the Multi Purpose Banks (as some of the sub sellers of the organic fertilizer) to boost and strengthen farmers use of organic fertilizer in the next coming years. And also to totally eliminate the use of chemical fertilizer. This will be done in combination with access to quality seeds and training/application for better results with active technical and investment support from ICS.

In Oddar Meanchey, Banteay Meanchey and Siem Reap provinces 85% of the people make a living out of farming.

ICS is planning to sell affordable organic fertilizer to 2000 families in 2013. In a pilot (2012) ICS sold to 300 families within 3 months.

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