FOOD CROPS Food Crops News 110 (Bản tin Cây Lương thực Quốc tế)
Cassava Viet : Cassava for Biofuel in Vietnam, http://cassavaviet.blogspot.com
Cassava Viet : Cassava for Biofuel in Vietnam, http://cassavaviet.blogspot.com
Congratulations on the 45th anniversary of CIAT
FOOD CROPS NEWS.
10 September 2012 in Hanoi, Vietnam,
the International
Center for Tropical
Agriculture (CIAT) celebrates 45 years of research for development aimed at
benefiting smallholder farmers and poor consumers across the tropical world. At
the same time, the Center marks three decades of innovative research for market‐oriented
agricultural development in Southeast Asia.
Among them Cassava
in Vietnam: a successful story Lessons learned including Enhancing the sustainability of cassava production in Vietnam through varietal dissemination and integrated management, 6M, 10T, FPR and FPE. CIAT began working in Vietnam since 1988 up to now by
strengthening the capacity of national scientists working on cassava and
tropical forages as well as through providing access to the germplasm
collections held in trust by CIAT. Those activities led to research on crop
improvement and management, which has featured strong collaboration with
hundreds of partners and enjoyed continued donor support. Cassava CIAT &
VIETNAM collaborative efforts have flourished, generating huge impacts on the
livelihoods of the poor made possible in large part by two key developments,
which have paralleled Vietnam’s
overall economic success. One was the region’s remarkable cassava boom. Cassavafor bio-fuel in Vietnam is the opportunity and challenges for the farmers in rural. This has
transformed the crop into a preferred raw material for industry, creating new sources
of income for millions of smallholder cassava farmers, who have widely adopted
improved varieties and production practices.
Cassava for Food, Feed in Vietnam is the other food and livestock
revolution. This has given smallholders a powerful incentive to adopt high
quality tropical forages for fodder, which are turning subsistence farming into
productive and sustainable enterprises in many areas. Cassavaand Vietnam: Now and Then with CIAT for research and development, including
6M, 10T, FPR and FPE to continue … The aim of this collaboration is to envisage
a better future for cassava in Vietnam, in which more eco‐efficient crops
and systems sharpen the competitive edge of agriculture while reducing its
ecological footprint and strengthening its resilience in the face of climate
change.
“ Congratulations on the 45th anniversary of CIAT.This is a good celebration and a
good opportunity for me to meet many old colleagues again. I am teaching and
studying on food crops at NLU. I am still rather active in cassava. I have the FOODCROPS.VN
including Food Crops News, CassavaViet, CassavaNews and Crops for Biofuel. I
have been consulting for several companies that want to grow cassava for starch
or ethanol production. I am presently in Dak Lak, Binh Phuoc, Tay Ninh, Dong
Nai, Ninh Thuan, Cambodia to do some cassava
experiments in Enhancing the sustainability of cassava production through varietal dissemination and integrated management . It is not easy. Anyway, I am glad that I can still be
working with cassava. It is an interesting crop.”.
(Hoang Kim)
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