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CORIGAP in Guangdong: the
potential of natural resource
management....3
Newsbits....4
Close partnership in Indonesia with
their national strategy for food
crop development....5
GDRRIs Xuhua Zhong shows guests around rice plots in Gaoyao county, Guangdong, where the
three controls technology was used.
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CORIGAP updates center on sustainability
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Highlights of results
Results of the baseline survey conducted
on more than 200 farmers and the FGD
in four CORIGAP villages in Guangdong
suggested a great potential to increase
A farmer explains to his felow farmers how his innovative drum seeder is used in his field.
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CORIGAP in Guangdong: the potential of natural resource management
News Tidbits
The CORIGAP Project bids Dr. Takahiro Sato
farewell and good luck. Taka was a postdoctoral
fellow at the Crop and Environmental Sciences
Division at IRRI headquarters from April 2012 to
2015. As a fellow, he worked on developing a field
calculator for CORIGAP.
The field calculator is a computer-based decisionsupport tool for comparing farmers current practices
with a new technology and determining the trade-off
among their various aspects. It will help researchers
visualize the economic and environmental impacts
of a new technology for rice production if the farmer
decides to adopt it.
Taka brings his extensive experience back to Japan.
Takahiro Sato (second from right, blue-striped shirt) discusses the concept
of a field calculator during a Participatory Impact Pathway Analysis
workshop in Can Tho, Vietnam.
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Direct seeding using the drum seeder is one of the well-adopted technologies in
Indonesia. It was introduced to help manage weeds and reduce labor cost.
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Close partnership in Indonesia with their national strategy for food crop development
After the event, a drum seeder that was fabricated by BPTP Yogyakarta
was donated to the local farmer group of Jogotirto.
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Learning Alliances
Capacity building
Gender studies
CORIGAP also aims to help achieve
gender equity among rural men and
women, in which women empowerment
plays an important role. In 2014, focus
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Abundant wildlife in the rice
ecosystems
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Sustainable rice production through CORIGAP in Thailand
were interested
in increasing
their efficiency of
production (reduce
their expenses on
input costs) and
access to better
storage facilities
to improve grain
quality. They
also said the
yield gap ranges
from 15 to 25%.
Baseline surveys
were conducted
using computerassisted personal
interviewing
(CAPI) software, or
Surveybe.
Based on the
initial results
of the FGD and
baseline survey,
a set of best management practices
based on Cost Reduction Operating
Principles or CROP were introduced and
established using farmer participatory
demonstration trials to reduce yield
gaps and to increase farmers production
efficiency. CROP practices is an initiative
of the Thailand Rice Department to
reduce production cost and increase
yields, and includes: 1) applying
fertilizer rates based on soil analysis,
2) using certified seeds, 3) reducing
seed rates, and 4) reducing chemical
applications. Farmer participatory
demonstration sites were selected in the
2004 dry season (3 sites) and the 2004
wet season (8 sites), respectively. Four
treatments were implemented in each
farmer demonstration site: (i) CROP +
Alternate Wetting and Drying (AWD);
(ii) CROP; (iii) CROP + drum seeder;
and (iv) farmers practice (FP).
The 2014 dry season results showed
reduced seed rate and fertilizer-use
rate in fields using the CROP treatment
compared with the farmers practice.
Using the combination of CROP and
drum seeder reduced the seed and
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A Rei of Sunshine
Good company
Reianne has always had a lust for
traveling and experiencing new
adventures. Just recently, Reianne
traveled to Batanes, a picturesque
group of islands in the northernmost
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CORIGAP updates center on sustainability
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farmers with higher yields used more
environmentally sustainable management
practices than lower yielding farmers. In
February 2015, two farmer field days were
held at CORIGAP demonstration sites
in Than Loi and Thanh An. It was the
culminating event of the cropping season
where farmers, DARD, and IRRI staff
presented and discussed the results of the
experimental field trials. The farmer field
days were organized by Ms. Nguyen Thi
Kieu (Deputy Director), Ms Hieu (Deputy
Director of Plant Protection Division),
and staff from Can Tho DARD. The
events were attended by 108 participants,
including 50 farmers, Dr. Nguyen Thi
My Phung (Deputy Director of An Giang
DARD), and IRRI staff members Alex
Stuart, Carlito Balingbing, and Anthony
Malabanan.
The field days involved a visit to
a CORIGAP demonstration field,
presentations by Can Tho DARD
about the recommended practices and
preliminary results, and presentations
by farmers on their farming experience
(both treatment and control farmers)
as recorded in their diaries, including
a breakdown of input costs. This was
followed by an open-forum discussion.
Farmers were shown that profits can be
increased by optimizing farm inputs,
thereby reducing costs. Demonstration
farmers reported a cost savings of 35% in
Than Loi and 60% in Thanh An, which
were mainly attributed to a reduction
in pesticide use. Yields are yet to be
determined as fields have not yet been
harvested.
Vietnamese rice farmers inspecting a CORIGAP demonstration field during a field day
in Can Tho province.
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Sustainable rice production practices show promise in the Mekong
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It was in 2012, when he studied
alternate wetting and drying (AWD)
technology for three months in the
International Rice Research Institute,
which opened doors for him as a
scientist. In the same year, he became
the principal investigator of two
projects funded by the Science and
Technology Program of Guangzhou
and the general director of GDRRI.
The projects research thrust focused
on the physiology of and high
yield and nutrient-use efficiency in
rice, and water-saving and related
technology extension activities.
But fieldwork had its share of
challenges. When Pan Junfeng
started working in the extension
of technology in Guangdong
Province, he found the language
barrier crippling his data gathering.
He couldnt speak and understand
Cantonese. Without a solid grasp
of the language, he couldnt catch
on with the local farmers concerns
and knew little of the issues in the
countryside.
Determined to turn these
circumstances around, Pan Junfeng
studied Cantonese in his free time.
He also closely coordinated with his
colleagues, Dr. Xuhua Zhong and
Ms. Zhanghui Huang. He considers
closer communication with the
extension staff and experienced
farmers in the countryside as
very important in enriching his
extension experience. Now, he is able
to converse well with the farmers
in Guangdong, and has a better
grip of the realities they are facing.
Knowing how to communicate
using the language farmers use
plays an important role especially in
extension work, he says. Successful
communication is key.
In May 2014, he worked with Drs.
Ruben Lampayan and Romeo
Cabangon in processing research
data gathered from AWD and
low-carbon collaborative field
experiments in China.
Jun Feng enjoys playing table tennis during his free time. It is his
favorite form of exercise.
He foresees another
5 years of intensive work to make
substantial achievements in the
completion of the development of a new
low-carbon technology in 2015, as well as
in finishing papers and implementation of
new technology in Guangdong Province.
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Quoting UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, Dr. Singleton says, Lifting people from
poverty and protecting the planets resources are two sides of the same coin. Both
must be at the heart of any framework.
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