The direct seedling rice system, or rice broadcasting, involves sowing seeds directly into the field rather than transplanting seedlings. This method reduces labor, especially...

This video highlights the importance of bio-compost and demonstrates how to make it, using an example from Yone Village, Paek District, Xiengkhouang Province. It explains the...

This video showcases the shade-grown coffee production process on a farm in a Lao village in Kham District, Xiengkhouang Province, Lao PDR. It explains how this method supports...

Integrated tea production refers to combining tea cultivation with other crops or livestock to maximize land use and improve sustainability. For example, planting pigeon peas...

This video presents beekeeping and honey production in Houaytan Village, Phoukoud District, Xiengkhouang Province, Lao PDR, highlighting their role in generating income. The...

This video presents the fish holes technique, a technique that enhances biodiversity and supports food security for smallholder farmers in Doneseur Village, Sanamxay District,...

This video explains how and why to produce bio-pesticides at home, using Yone Village, Paek District, Xiengkhouang Province, Lao PDR as an example. It highlights the important...

This video highlights the high potential of sticklac as an alternative commodity for rural areas, featuring Trongpang Village, Xay District, Oudomxay Province, Lao PDR. It...

This video presents why and how to plant peanuts after rice harvesting, using a farm localized in Nadou Village, Kham District, Xiengkhouang Province, Lao PDR as an example....

This technical leaflet provides practical guidelines and practices for establishing and managing a semi-intensive local pig raising system. It covers aspects such as housing...

This leaflet provides practical guidance on fruit tree propagation. It states how to make new branches growing and how to cut them in order to make new plants. It also explains...

This leaflet provides simple instructions for producing and using bio-extracted liquid fertilizers made from leaves, fruits, and snails, as well as organic compost. It explains...

This video series showcases two sustainable models in the coffee value chain in Son La, developed by the Northwest Agriculture and Forestry Research & Development Center...

As we are well aware, the cost of fish feed in current fish farming is relatively high, while the selling price of fish is often low. This has led many farmers to produce their...

Making silage is a method of preserving and storing green feed through anaerobic fermentation (without oxygen). Silage can be made from a diversity of forage materials and...

The agricultural innovation system (AIS) is an approach that considers agricultural innovation from a multidisciplinary perspective. The Rapid Appraisal of Agricultural...

This manual will help you to develop a better understanding of cover crops, including their main characteristics, advantages and considerations, and the choices involved in...

A technical guide for composting composting animal waste and agricultural by-products. Composting manure with biological products is the process of decomposing animal and plant...

Weaver ants (Oecophylla smaragdina, Hymenoptera) have been used for more than 2,000 years for the suppression of insect pests in Asian mango and citrus orchards, thus...

This leaflet describes an ecological system in Son La, Vietnam, for treating wastewater from coffee cherry processing through solid separation, anaerobic and aerobic treatment...