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Recipe for Carnivorous / Herbivorous Fish Feed

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...

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Sticklac as an Alternative Commodity in Trongpang Village

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...

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Direct Seedling Rice System

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

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Integrated Tea Production System

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...

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Beekeeping and Honey Production in Houaytan Village

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

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Fish Holes and Paddy Rice Farming: A Traditional and Agroecological Practice

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

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Bio-Pesticides: Why and How to Produce It – The Yone Village Example

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...

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Peanut Production After Rice Harvest: Benefits and Practices

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....

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Semi-intensive Local Pig Raising System

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...

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Lessons from Nature - A guide to Ecological Agriculture in the tropics

Over millions of years, nature has built up an intricate system of relationship of exchange and mutual dependence among its elements - land, water, air, forest, sunlight and...

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The Lao Uplands Sourcebook, Improving livelihoods in the Uplands of Lao PDR

The Lao Uplands Sourcebook was developed in order to provide field level extension workers, educators and students better access to the wealth of information and experiences in...

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Promoting Indigenous Knowledge and Good Agricultural Practices in Climate...

Climate change is one of the most important challenges to sustainable development in the Northern mountainous region of Vietnam. Indigeneous Knowledge is also used in...

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Farmer Field School Guidance Document: Planning for Quality Programme

Farmers field schools (FFS), FAO's front-line innovation, are amongst its most fundamental field contributions to fulfill this commitment. FAO has been incubating, nurturing and...

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Assessment of Lao PDR’s National Biodiversity Strategy to 2020 and Action...

In 1996, the Government of Lao PDR acceded to United Nation International Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD). In meeting the requirements of the convention, in 2004, the...

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Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems (GIAHS)

For centuries, farmers, herders, fishers and foresters have developed diverse and locally adapted agricultural systems managed with time tested, ingenious techniques. These...