source: https://www.agri.com.mm/13252-2 FAO has been collaborating with the Government of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar for the last more than 42 years contributing to the livelihoods improvement and economic development in Myanmar leading towards achieving the Global Sustainable Development Goals. During the recent challenging situations due [...]
World Soil Day (WSD), 5th December is the United Nations Observance that celebrates healthy soils for a food-secure future. This years' campaign "Keep soil alive, Protect soil biodiversity" urges us to focus our attention on the workers belowground - from tiny bacteria to agile millipedes and slimy earthworms - all of which contribute to [...]
ကမ္ဘာ့မြေဆီလွှာနေ့ (World Soil Day)- မြေဆီလွှာကိုထိန်းသိမ်းခြင်းဖြင့် ဇီဝမျိုးကွဲများကိုကာကွယ်ပါ။SLM-GEF စီမံကိန်းမှ ကမ္ဘာ့မြေဆီလွှာနေ့ လုပ်ဆောင်ချက်များ။
Daw Htay Htay Naing, a farmer from Sin Tat Kyin village in Kyaukpadaung Township. She worked as a farmer for over 30 years. She joined the farmer field school training which is organized by FAO, CESVI, and DOA. And now, she is growing Shaw-phyu from using the technologies [...]
“I tried one acre of rice growing by using climate-smart agriculture (CSA) techniques including System of Rice Intensification (SRI) this year and am planning to expand in five acres in next year” said a village farmer Daw Yin Yin Htay from Loke Taung village in Labutta township. A Farmer Field [...]
Daw Htay Htay Naing, a farmer from Sin Tat Kyin village in Kyaukpadaung Township, who is not a Farmer Field School (FFS) participant but she is only a neighbor of some FFS participants expressed the following message: “The farmer field school participants from the training told me that t growing [...]
Realizing the impact of climate change as a global and national challenge, FAO has been implementing a GEF funded project “Sustainable Cropland and Forest Management in Priority Agro-Ecosystems of Myanmar (SLM-GEF)” since July 2016, jointly with MoALI and MoNREC to build capacity of farming and forestry stakeholders to mitigate climate [...]
FAO has been implementing a Global Environment Facility (GEF) funded five years project entitled “Sustainable cropland and forest management in priority agro-ecosystems of Myanmar” since July 2016 in coordination with the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environmental Conservation (MoNREC) and the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock, and Irrigation (MoALI). In the [...]
The Ex-ACT Carbon Tool training The Ex-ACT Carbon Tool training took place during 16 - 19 October in Yezin Agricultural University, Myanmar by Climate Smart Agriculture Center. A total of 27 participants from Department of Agriculture, Department of Agricultural Research, Yezin Agricultural University, Forest Department, Forest Research Institute and the [...]
