Collaboration for Agriculture & Rural Development:Sustainable and profitable development of acacia plantations for sawlog production in Vietnam - Milestone 12 " pdf

The summary results indicate that: • Participants had retained course materials and equipment provided • All participants had kept an understanding of key course knowledge elements •

Ministry of Agriculture & Rural Development

Collaboration for Agriculture & Rural Development

Milestone Report

Project VIE:032/05 Sustainable and profitable development of acacia plantations for sawlog production in Vietnam

Milestone 12:

1 Extension Training Manual

Introduction

This milestone report integrates material previously provided in reports on project training courses with follow-up competency surveys carried out in the first quarter

of 2009

1 Extension Training Manual

The Extension Training Manual is a set of Powerpoint slides that has previously been provided in the reports on the Second and Third Extension training courses

It is attached again with this report These slides form a concise summary of the technology package presented in the extension courses

2 Objective competency assessment of FSIV staff in deign, implementation and management of germplasm and silviculture techniques for sustainable sawlog production and application and interpretation of acacia sawlog

financial models

Fourteen young scientific staff from FSIV and various provincial forest authorities received training in a course held in HCM City and nearby field sites in June

2007 A detailed report on this course was provided to CARD Office in

September 2007 At the time of the course, trainees completed a simple

competency assessment before and after doing the course This assessment indicated marked improvement in understanding key course concepts It was included in the course report

A follow-up competency survey was conducted in February 2009, 20 months after the course All the course attendees were interviewed by telephone by Ms Duong Thanh Hoa of FSIV The results of the telephone survey are summarised in Table

1 below

The summary results indicate that:

• Participants had retained course materials and equipment provided

• All participants had kept an understanding of key course knowledge elements

• About 2/3 of participants had applied knowledge and skills learned in the course in their professional work in plantation forestry

Table 1 Summary of follow-up competency assessment conducted in February

2009 for participants in technical training course, CARD Project 032/05 VIE at

Ho Chi Minh city in June 2007

Bảng tổng hợp kết quả đánh giá lớp học thuộc dự án CARD 032/05VIE

” tại TP Hồ Chí Minh (Tháng 6/2007)

Number of answers

/Số câu trả lời

No

Yes

Có Không No

(Nghề nghiệp của bạn có liên quan đến:

Tree breeding

Seed and seedling supply

Tree nursery operations

(Vườn ươm)

6 8

Plantation establishment and management

Other relevant employment

(Các công việc khác)

the course

(Bạn có giữ tài liệu được cung cấp trong suốt khoá học

hay không?)

14 0

during the course

(Bạn có tham khảo tài liệu được cung cấp trong suốt

khoá học hay không?)

14 0

shears) when you attended the course

(Bạn có được nhận các dụng cụ (kéo cắt cành, cưa) khi

bạn tham gia vào khoá học không)

14 0

since attending the course

(Bạn có sử dụng các dụng cụ (kéo cắt cành, cưa) từ khi

tham gia vào lớp học không)

14 0

- plantation establishment (site selection and preparation,

initial plantation spacing, choice of fertilizer

(thiết kế trồng rừng: chọn địa điểm, chuẩn bị, mật độ

ban đầu, phân bón)

9 5

single-stemmed trees,

3-6 months after planting

(tỉa bỏ chỉ để lại một thân sau 3 – 6 tháng trồng)

9 5

competing leaders

and straighten lower stems, 9-12 months after planting

(tỉa bỏ những cây cạnh tranh, hình dáng thân xấu

sau 9 -12 tháng)

9 5

knot-free clearwood

(tỉa cành để loại bỏ mắt chết)

9 5

- thinning acacia plantations to enable faster diameter

growth of retained trees

(tỉa thưa rừng trồng để đường kính của những cây được

giữ lại sinh trưởng tốt?)

9 5

Numbers of participants: 14

Số người tham gia trả lời câu hỏi: 14

3 Competency assessment of trained extension workers in sawlog growing technology package and establishment of on-farm demonstration sites

Three training courses targeting extension workers were carried out as follows:

1 Thu Thinh Hue Province, March 2008

2 Quang Binh Province, July 2008

3 Hanoi Province, March 2009

As was done for the scientist training course, simple pre-and post-course competency assessments were carried out at the time of the second and third courses In both courses examination of the results indicated that participants had substantially

improved their knowledge and skills relevant to the course subject area These pre- and post-course assessments for the second and third extension courses have been included in the reports on each extension course, which have already been provided to the CARD Office

The first extension course targeted primarily technicians working for forest

enterprises in Thua Thien Hue and neighbouring provinces A follow-up

competency assessment was done for the participants in this course in March 2009 Those course attendees who could be located were interviewed by telephone by Ms Duong Thanh Hoa of FSIV A total of 13 of the 25 attendees were contacted for this assessment Summary results are shown in Table 2

The summary results indicate that:

• Participants had retained course materials and equipment provided

• All participants had kept an understanding of key course knowledge elements

• Most of the participants had applied one or more areas of knowledge and skills learned in the course in their professional work in plantation forestry

• The areas of acacia plantations treated with the recommended techniques are relatively small (less than 4 ha in total) A larger area may have been treated overall considering that 12 of the participants were not contacted

Table 2 Summary of follow-up competency assessment conducted in March

2009 for participants in first Project extension training course held in Thua

Thien Hue province (March 2008)

Answers

No

STT

Questions/câu hỏi

Yes

Có

No

Không

Note (ghi chú)

(Nghề nghiệp của bạn có liên quan đến:

Tree breeding

Seed and seedling supply

Tree nursery operations

Plantation establishment and management

Other relevant employment

2 Have you kept the training materials provided during the

course

(Bạn có giữ tài liệu được cung cấp trong suốt khoá học hay

không?)

13 0

3 Have you referred to the training materials provided during the

course

(Bạn có tham khảo tài liệu được cung cấp trong suốt khoá học

hay không?)

13 0

you attended the course

(Bạn có được nhận các dụng cụ (kéo cắt cành, cưa) khi bạn

tham gia vào khoá học không)

13 0

attending the course

(Bạn có sử dụng các dụng cụ (kéo cắt cành, cưa) từ khi tham

gia vào lớp học không)

13 0

(Bạn có sử dụng những kiến thức thu được từ khoá học để:)

(các hoạt động chọn tạo giống)

11 2

- choosing planting material for acacia plantations, or advising

other people

on choice of seed or other planting material (clones) (lựa chọn

vật liệu cho trồng rừng hoặc khuyên người khác

lựa chọn hạt hoặc các vật liệu khác?)

13 0

- plantation establishment (site selection and preparation,

initial plantation spacing, choice of fertilizer

(thiết kế trồng rừng: chọn địa điểm, chuẩn bị, mật độ ban đầu,

phân bón)

12 1

trees,

3-6 months after planting

(tỉa bỏ chỉ để lại một thân sau 3 – 6 tháng trồng)

leaders

and straighten lower stems, 9-12 months after planting

(tỉa bỏ những cây cạnh tranh, hình dáng thân xấu sau 9

-12 tháng)

- lift-pruning young acacia plantations to produce knot-free

clearwood

(tỉa cành để loại bỏ mắt chết)

11 2

- thinning acacia plantations to enable faster diameter growth of

retained trees

(tỉa thưa rừng trồng để đường kính của những cây được giữ

lại sinh trưởng tốt?)

11 2

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