Lower Mekong Food Security Database

Project Information

The project, financially supported by IBSA Fund and its cooperation partners is being implemented by FAO and counterparts (from MARD and city’s agencies) for two years (4 rice production seasons) with the following aims:

• Strengthen production capacity at the commune level, including:
  
• Improve farmer’s field production capacity: standardizing and adapting advanced technologies to cultivating procedure for more efficient production
• Introduce new varieties with high yield and marketability to the local condition for product range expansion and market diversification.
• Enhance the post harvest processing capacity of the commune for higher quality and value added of the product.
• Establish a seed quality control and certification system for the city for enhancement of its supportive services to the farmers.
  
• Enhance trading capacity, including raising awareness of compliance with the State Ordinance in seed trading and circulating, Intellectual Property and Branding the “Seed of Hoa Tien”.
  

Ultimate beneficiaries of the project are about 4,000 farmer households of Hoa Tien commune and the staff of Department of Agriculture and Rural Development (DARD) of Da Nang.

Project Locations

Da Nang