Agronomes et Vétérinaires sans frontières 2009

A technical cooperation

for small-scale farmings

in developing countries.

Agronomes et Vétérinaires sans frontières 2009

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1. Small-scale farmings are

important for society : social,

economical and

environmental performance

(if minimal conditions allow

their development).

2. Cooperation to strengthen

rural stakeholders and rural

organisations capacity.

Agronomes et Vétérinaires sans frontières 2009

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1. Sustainable management of natural

ressources and rural territories :

� Natural ressources availability (public goods).

� Adaptation of natural ressources and territories collective management(pastoralism, forest, water management) and their legal recognition.

� Sustainability of farming and livestockproduction system, ecologically intensive farming.

� Economically fair ressources promotion.

Agronomes et Vétérinaires sans frontières 2009

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2. Strengthening of producers organisations, of

local and international markets

Strengthen producers organisations in order they well

control transformation and commercialisation

� Secure and lucrative prices availability on local and

international markets (quality, certifications, …)

� Limited dependance risks to large-scale agribusiness

industry by a diversification of commercial strategies

� Limitated feeding risk by productions

diversification

� Farmers skills promotion and products quality

improvement

� Small-scale farming recognition by urban consumers

and local markets development that link them

directly.

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3. Livestock and animal health services

development

� Small-scale livestock profitability increase thanks

to zootechnical and animal health sustainable

services.

� A strengthened livestock keepers function for

the outbreaks watching, linked to private and

public vets.

4. Appraisal to build local systems improvingeeeepideeeemiological animal diseases watching and animal

products sanitary quality, safeguarding veterinary

public health.

Agronomes et Vétérinaires sans frontières 2009

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� Working in partnership with local

stakeholders: FO, NGO, town councils,

training centers and universities, public

institutions.

� Implementation of local projects with our

partners to promote a rural and sustanaible

small-scale farming, inserted in national

economies.

� Stakeholders training and strengthening

of their capacity to promote their point of

view in public policies.

Agronomes et Vétérinaires sans frontières 2009

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� Promotion of the duties and

roles of small-scale farmings.

� Protection of the food

security and the right to

feeding.

� Protection of the poors’ right

to access water and land.

� Promote fairtrade and demonstrate its impacts on the south

poor farmers and on economy.

� Promotion of policies supporting territories and moutain and

pastoralist people development.

Agronomes et Vétérinaires sans frontières 2009

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South and Central America, CaraïbesWest Africa

Indien OcéanSouth-East Asia

Agronomes et Vétérinaires sans frontières 2009

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� 61 projects in 19 countries

� A 220 persons staff (27 in France, 40 expatriate workers, more than 150

national professionals)

� 2008 Budget : 9 millions d’€

� A network supported by 600 members et 9.000 contributors

� More than 80 partnerships in the coutries

� Technical partnerships in Europe (universities, research centers, local

authorities, agricultural organisations, French Agriculture Ministery, …)

� Confirmed financial partnership with European Commission, French

Agency for Development, local authorities, european enterprises and private

fondations.

FAO-SLPP

project activities

CAMBODIA, 2009

09-11/2008 Report of livestock activities (FAO/SLPP)

1. Chicken Production Strategy

2. Pig Production Strategy

3. Cattle Production Strategy

Project components

1. Chicken health improvement

� Provision of quarantine cage

� De-worming with tetramisole

� Vaccination again ND for two round and FP as practical training

� Provide medicine for the treatment of disease and contact one vet pharmacy for farmer group

� Encourage farmers to construct bio-security pen and normal pen

� Follow up and advise farmer for chicken health (treatment, vaccination….)

� Organize the collective vaccination campaign again ND

� Organization of selling of vet medicine at the village level

Chicken Production Strategy

� Train villagers on chicken raising (Feeding, breeding, taking care…)

�Distribute 50 hybrid cock to farmers with technique to separate the newly-born chick after hatching

�Organize the supply of corn bran

� Advise farmers on feeding innovation using locally availability feed resources

� Follow up and advise the farmers on separating newly –born chick from the hen and taking care

� Provide commercial feed for chicks, drinker and feed through for farmers who practice according to technical training

2. Improvement of chicken production

� Facilitate in creation of one chicken farmer group with 18 members and system of share

� Prepare regulation with marketing man in the group committees

� Provide materials for farmer groups (scale, office materials…)

� Install one marketing board

� Provide 4 transporting cages

� Contact middleman, restaurant in Kg. Speu and updating the price of chicken on weekly basis

� Marketing man was invited to participated in the training of marketing

� Facilitate in providing Input of FAO to group

3. Improvement of marketing

Pig Strategy

1. Improvement of pig health

• De-worm pigs around the villages

• Vaccinated against FMD and CSF

• Training on pig health (vaccination, de-worming treatment of diseases….).

• Treatment of piglets and sows and recommendation on the treatment fattening

• Provide regular follow up and advise

• Involvement of VAHWs

• Train villagers on pig raising (Feeding, breeding, taking care...)

• identify all the sows with identity card for implementation of piglet care program: preventive and curative treatment for piglets and sow, feeding , Primex using for sow…

• Improvement of system of pig fattening: Improve feeding, using basemix in the feed

• Provide 300USD in cash capital for member for credit to increase the production

2. Improvement of pig production

• Facilitate in creation of one pig farmer group with 18 members and system of share and marketing man in the group committees

• Provide materials for farmer groups (scale, office…) Install one marketing board

• Provide 1 catching cages to Contact middlemen and updating the price of pig on weekly basis

• Prepare and sign the Agreement withmiddleman

• Training marketing man on marketing

3. Improvement of pig marketing

Cattle Strategy

1. Improvement of cattle health

• Recommend villagers to use VAHWsservice

• De-worm cattle with albendazole

• Vaccinate against FMD for two rounds

• Involve VAHWs in the activities

• Follow up/advise VAHWs on disease treatment

• Provide diseases treatment of project cattle

• Inform the villager about the price of vaccines

• Advise VAHWs where to find the good medicine for the cattle disease treatment

• Advise and follow up the diseases treatment of VAHWs

• Train villagers on feeding of cattle

• Select 11 farmers for cattle fattening program:

2. Improvement of cattle production

Description of data recorded Figures

Number of cattle 28

Weight before fattening program

192.96 Kg

visual aspect before fattening

program

25 % Fat , 3.57 % Medium, 71.42 %

skinny

duration of fattening program 66 days

Weight after fattening program 205.18 Kg

visual aspect at after fattening 71.43 % Fat , 17.85 % Medium, 10.71% skinny

Average body weigh gain 12.21 Kg/head

quantity of STU distributed/day 4.5 Kg/Head

price at selling date 2,300,000 Riels

quantity of premix

distributed/day

Premix: 15 grams/head/day

DCP: 15 grams/head/day

• Facilitate in creation of one cattle farmer group with 11 members

• Prepare regulation with marketing man in the group committees

• Provide materials for farmer groups (scale, office materials…)

• Install one marketing board

• Contact middleman in Kg. Speu for selling the cattle and updating the price of cattle

• Training on marketing by SLPP marketing unit for marketing man of the groups

• Facilitate reproduce the UTRS for next fattening for cattle to be sold

3. Improvement of cattle marketing

Challenges encountered

During the project implementation, challenges encountered included:

• Many reported cases of chicken thefts in the village of Reung Peung

• Artificial insemination of many sows proved to be unsuccessful

• Semen is not available in the target district,

• price of live pig is not good at the moment

• Shortage of rice straws for some beneficiaries for urea-treated straw

• Shortage of good quality of vaccine and veterinary medicines with

appropriate price for chicken strategy lead to some outbreak of ND

• It seemed difficult to have good middlemen for the animal raiser groups

(especially for chicken group).

• It is hard to determine categories of pigs agreed upon between

middlemen and the pig raiser group.

• It is observed that the market price of live pig is not good at the

moment.

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