100 likes | 271 Views
Organic rice industry in Cambodia. Presented by: Farmer and Nature Net. Current Situation of organic rice in Cambodia ( 2011). No of producer group: 322 groups, from 322 villages, 94 communes, 28 districts, 7 provinces Total members: 2668 members
E N D
Organic rice industry in Cambodia Presented by: Farmer and Nature Net
Current Situation of organic rice in Cambodia ( 2011) • No of producer group: 322 groups, from 322 villages, 94 communes, 28 districts, 7 provinces • Total members: 2668 members • Land area for organic rice production: 1,283 ha • Amount organic rice produced in 2011: 1,200 t • Amount supplied to CEDAC shop: 840 t
CEDAC and FNN are providing technical support in term of rice farming technique ( SRI), forming organic rice producer group and network, and create the market for organic rice product • The product is supplied to local market and international market ( Germany, USA…)
Initiative of key stakeholder • Farmers are interested to produce organic rice as it also reduce production cost and can be sold at higher price • NGOs: providing technical support in term farming technique, form the group and looking for the market for theproduct • Consumer: support local organic product • Government: support the forming of organic rice and encourage farmers to do organic farming
Issue and challenge • Irregular rainfall • Drought and flood • Pest outbreak • Lack of market and marketing actors • Limited participation of farmers in value added • High standard requirement for the product to be exported
Impact of 3 global issues • Land right: • Land grabbing: farmers sometimes lose their productive land • Low production and low quality products • Conflict occurance and migration • Climate change • Drought and flood rice yield will go down • Pest break which lead to low rice yield • Cause high production cost • Failure farming business – farmers won’t do it again next year
Food price volatility • Positive impact: farmer will be able to sell their rice at higher price – higher income • Negative impact: farmers will expense more money on food which they can’t produce
Opportunity • High demand of organic rice both in and outside country • Many people start to be aware and trend to consume organic products • There are some existing market channel for organic rice • The government support and exporting rice to abroad is also government’s strategy
Action plan and recommendation • Organic rice should be promoted country wide • Link all producer group into cluster and union • Farmers should involved in this industry and form themselves into network • Local and national authority support the industry • NGO should provide more capacity building training related to value added
Government should re-check the policy of land investment ( esp. land concession) • Government should rehabilitate the existing irrigation system and build the new ones where there is lack of irrigation system • Government should facilitate to find the loan or provide loan to farmers with low interest rate to ensure that farmers will have enough financial resource to invest in this industry • Both government and NGO must try to look for and expand the market for organic rice products.