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Ministry of Agriculture & Rural Development Project Progress Report MS7: Farmer and Extension Worker Training Manuals and extension material Investigation of rice kernel cracking and i

Ministry of Agriculture & Rural Development

Project Progress Report

MS7: Farmer and Extension Worker Training Manuals and extension material

Investigation of rice kernel cracking and its control in the field and during post-harvest

processes in the Mekong Delta of Vietnam

026/VIE05

Dec 2007

NONG LAM UNIVERSITY

1 Institute Information

Project Name Investigation of rice kernel cracking

and its control in the field and during post-harvest processes in the Mekong Delta of Vietnam

Vietnamese Institution Nong Lam University

Vietnamese Project Team Leader Dr Vinh Truong

Australian Organisation The University of Queensland

Australian Personnel Associate Professor Bhesh Bhandari

Professor Shu Fukai

Date commenced April 2006

Completion date (original) March 2009

Completion date (revised) April 2009

Reporting period 6 months

Contact Officer(s)

In Australia: Team Leader

Name: Bhesh Bhandari Telephone: +61733469192

Position: Associate Professor Fax:+61733651177

Organisation: The University of

Queensland

Email:b.bhandari@uq.edu.au

In Australia: Administrative contact

Name: Mr Kerry Johnston Telephone: +61 7 3365 7493

Position: Research support officer Fax: +61 7 33658383

Organisation: The University of

Queensland

Email: k.johnston@research.uq.edu.au

In Vietnam

Name: Vinh Truong Telephone: 84-8-7242527

Position: Head, Department

of Chemical Engineering

Fax: 84-8-8960713

Organisation: Nong Lam

University

Email: tv@hcmuaf.edu.vn

OUTLINE OF REPORT

This report addresses the following milestone requirements:

• Training manuals for extension workers and farmers in English and Vietnamese

• Extension pamphlets and posters

Please note that not all the contents have been translated in English Only the

essential information of training manuals and contents are presented in English This is due to the limit of resources and time and actual usefulness of translation of full documents in English

The report is divided into 3 sections:

1 Summary of the training activities and documents used for the training program from February to September-2007 Attached appendices 1 to 4 are the training reports, 5 to 7 are the training documents

2 Brief details on the workshop organised in the year 2006 Only the table of

contents and summary of the workshop have been translated in English The full contents of the workshop in Vietnamese is attached in the Appendix (please note that it was time consuming to translate all into English)

3 Brief details on the workshop organised in the year 2007 Only the table of

contents and summary of the workshop have been translated in English The full contents of the workshop in Vietnamese is attached in the Appendix (please note that it was time consuming to translate all into English)

Nong Lam University Ho Chi Minh city CARD Project 026/VIE05

FARMERS AND EXTENSION WORKERS

TRAINING 2007

Summary of the training activities and documents used

in the training program from February to

September-2007

(Copy of original Vietnamese version is attached)

Project:

INVESTIGATION OF RICE KERNEL CRACKING AND ITS CONTROL IN THE FIELD AND DURING POST-HARVEST PROCESSES IN THE MEKONG

DELTA OF VIETNAM

NONG LAM UNIVERSITY UNIVERSITY OF

QUEENSLAND

The 8 sessions of one day training program were organised in 8 districts of two provinces (Kien Giang and Can Tho) in February (dry season) and September (wet season) 2007 The participants were farmers and extension workers

1.1 Training program:

The training program consisted of three sections: teaching lessons, demonstration

of the dryers and harvesters in the field

♣ Teaching session: There were three lessons- harvesting time, harvesting

method and drying technique

♣ Demonstration of the dryer: This demonstration was carried out with the

real wet paddy on each day of training During the run, air reversible method was demonstrated to the participants Discussion was carried out during and after the drying run

♣ Demonstration of the harvester: This activity was carried out in the field

with the real rice Discussion about quality, capacity as well as economic aspects was carried out after harvesting demonstration

1.2 Organization:

The university and coordinator of the project sent a letter to the provincial extension center to inform about the training program including time, place, number of farmers and extension workers The provincial extension center sent the invitation letter to each participant following the conditions as mentioned in the project

The training lessons were held in the meeting hall of the district or commune The training document prepared by Nong Lam University was provided to each participant After lessons, the participants were transported to the site by bus for the demonstration session

1.3 Organisation committee and teaching staff:

The training section was organised in collaboration with Provincial Extension Centers where the training program was held The members of organisation committee are shown in the Table 1 The teaching staff (trainers) from Nong Lam

Table 1: Organisation committee of the training section

2 Director of the provincial

extension center

Extension Center of the

Table 2: The teaching staff (trainers) involved in the training section

1.4 Training venue and number of participants:

1.4.1 The dry season (February-March 2007):

We organised one day training program in February 2007 in two different districts in Kien Giang province Total of 313 farmers and 25 extension workers were trained as shown in Table 3

Table 3: Summary of the number of participants trained in February 2007

farmers trained

Number of officers/extension workers

1 Kien Giang Tan Hiep

Giong Rieng

25/02/2007 26/02/2007

124

189

10

15

Total 313 25

1.4.2 The wet season (July – September 2007):

During the three months of wet season (July to September 2007), the project organised the

training program in two places, Tan Hiep district of Kien Giang province and Phong Dien district of Can Tho province In this season, 1035 farmers and 79 extension workers from

6 districts were trained (as shown in Table 4)

Table 3: Summary of the number of participants

farmers trained

Number of officers/extension workers

1 Kien Giang

2 Can Tho

Chau Thanh Hon Dat

Phong Dien

Co Do Thot Not Vinh Thanh

28/7/2007 29/7/2009

22/9/2007 23/9/2007 29/9/2007 30/9/2007

181

178

195

139

165

167

10

12

12

12

15

18

Total 1035 79

Thus, from Feb 2007 to Sept 2007, the number of farmers trained was 1348 This number

is higher than the targeted number of farmers to be trained in the project

II THE TRAINING DOCUMENT

The training documents were updated and improved time by time with more information in the later training series They are shown in the Appendices of this report

# The appendices 1, 2, 3, and 4 are the summaries of the training activities for the training series Feb/07, July/07, 22-23Sep/07 and 29-30Sep/07, such as the pictures

of the farmers in the training lesson hall and in the demonstration places The subscripts V and E are for Vietnamese and English, respectively

# The appendices 5, 6, and 7 are the summaries of the training documents for Sep/07 for the harvesting time, the harvesting method and the drying, respectively