Development of clam culture for improvement and diversification of livelihoods of the poor coastal communities in Central Vietnam - Milestone 12 " pptx

Introduction & Background The main objective is to develop and extend the clam culture technology hatchery and husbandry to sustain livelihoods of poor coastal farmers in the North Cent

Ministry of Agriculture & Rural Development

027/05VIE

Development of clam culture for improvement and diversification of livelihoods of the poor coastal communities in Central Vietnam

Milestone 12: Staff Competency Report

June, 2009

Table of Contents

1 Institute Information 3

2 Contact Officer(s) 3

3 Project Abstract 4

4 Introduction & Background 4

4.1 Specific objectives 5

4.2 Expected outputs of staff competencies: 5

5 Progress to Date 5

5.1 Implementation highlights 5

5.1.1 Competency Building Process 5

5.1.2 Training, workshops, study tour 6

5.1.3 ‘On farm’ trials 8

5.1.4 Hatchery establishment, management and transferred technologies 8

5.2 Capacity building 10

5.2.1 ARSINC 10

5.2.2 Provincial staff 11

5.2.3 Farmers 12

5.2.4 Students from Universities 12

6 Conclusion 13

Appendix A: List of participants of Training/Workshop in August, 2007 14

Appendix B: List of participants of Training/Workshop in March, 2008 16

Appendix C: List of farmers participated study tour in April, 2008 17

Appendix D: List of provincial staff involved in project activities 18

Appendix E: List of households involved in on farm trials from 2008 19

Appendix F: List of students’ thesis under supervision of ARCINC/SARDI 20

1 Institute Information

diversification of livelihoods of the poor coastal communities in Central Vietnam

(Project No: 027/05VIE)

Central (ARSINC)

Vietnamese Project Team Leader Mr Chu Chi Thiet (Project Director)

Institution (SARDI)

Dr Bennan Chen (Senior Scientist)

Completion date (revised)

2 Contact Officer(s)

In Australia: Team Leader

Position: Principal Scientist, and Program

Leader, Integrated Biosystems Integrated Resource Management and Biotechnology

Organisation South Australian Research and

Development Institution (SARDI)

Email: kumar.martin@saugov

sa.gov.au

In Australia: Administrative contact

In Vietnam

Organisation Aquaculture Research Institute

for North-Central

3 Project Abstract

4 Introduction & Background

The main objective is to develop and extend the clam culture technology (hatchery and husbandry) to sustain livelihoods of poor coastal farmers in the North Central provinces: and to develop a strategy which contributes to sustainable aquatic environment management using clam aquaculture to improve prawn farm effluent utilisation The aims

of the proposed project are:

a) to provide poor fisher community an alternative income and food security;

b) to improve technological and extension capacity for the stakeholders; and

c) to reduce negative impacts of shrimp culture through implementation of a strategy for environmental management and waste utilisation of existing resources

The main objective of the project is to develop and extend the clam culture technology (hatchery and husbandry) to sustain livelihoods of poor coastal farmers in the North Central provinces and to develop a strategy which contributes to sustainable aquatic environment management using clam aquaculture to improve prawn farm effluent utilisation In order to achieve the objectives of the project, staff competent is one of very important factor Since beginning of project up to now, there are many activities have been conducted for building of staff competencies not only for ARSINC staff but also for provincial staff and farmers as well as students from Universities Following are the main activities:

• Training

• In country training

ƒ Training for lead farmers

ƒ Training for ARSINC staff

ƒ Workshops and study tours for staff and farmers

• Overseas training (Australia)

ƒ Structured training

ƒ Study tours

• Demonstration

• On farm trials of production models in 6 provinces

• workshops

• Collaboration on hatchery establishment, management and transferring technology

• Supervision for students thesis

In this report the competency building process and details of each activties are presented

4.1 Specific objectives

The objectives of this project (027/05VIE) include the following:

• to develop and extend the clam culture technology (hatchery and husbandry);

• to sustain livelihoods of poor coastal farmers in the North Central provinces; and

• to develop a strategy which contributes to sustainable aquatic environment management using clam aquaculture to improve prawn farm effluent utilization

4.2 Expected outputs of staff competencies:

Completion of training through project participation of at least 4 key staff ARSINC staff

in hatchery establishment and management of on-going operations, in the transfer of that technology to private aquaculture companies and as trainers of Provincial Directorate staff in clam spat settlement and grow-out techniques

Completion of training through project participation of 30 Provincial Fisheries

Directorate staff as trainers of farmers in clam culture management practices

5 Progress to Date

5.1 Implementation highlights

5.1.1 Competency Building Process

In order to build competency following three primary modes were applied

• Training

• Demonstration

• Education

The training was provided both in-country and overseas (Australia) The overseas

training program mainly targeted to ARSINC and provincial staff who are actively

engaged in the project activities Overseas training consists of structure training (theory and practical) and study tour The in-country training was focused not only training the staff but also lead farmers and students

In collaboration with Vinh University students dissertation were completed using project topic under the supervision of ARSIC/SARDI senior staff, in particular Project Director from Vietnam and Project Leader from Australia Students are the future skill base and the program yielded good result Details presented in the following section

The demonstration program is one of the most effective component in the competency building program Lead farmers were selected for participating in the demonstration

based in a selection criteria The farmers participating in farm trials and demonstrations will be engaged as trainers for training programs for other farmers A flow chart is

provided for showing the competency building process

Flow chart: Indicating competency building process

5.1.2 Training, workshops, study tour

5.1.2.1 Training, study tour abroad:

From 30th October to 10th November, 2006, three technicians from ARSINC and Director

of Extension Center from Thanh Hoa province have been sent to SARDI, Australia for attending training course on live feed production, data processing, nutrient and water quality management as well as to see integrated aquaculture system using waste water and other aquaculture farms using bio-recirculation system in South Australia

In August 2007, 10 days intensive training course has been conducted in SARDI, Australia for two researchers in which one is researcher from ARSINC and another from Nghe An province The training involved the statistic data analysis and techniques in writing the journal article for publication which regarded as weak point of scientists in ARSINC This training was very useful and supported a lot in developing the scientific report as well as in publishing scientific articles in the international journals

Overseas training has been provided to a total six staff

Competency Building Process

Education Student Thesis (Future Skill Base)

Overseas (Aus)

In-country

ARSINC Staff

Extension

Staff

Lead Farmers

Extension

Staff

ARSIC Staff

Lead Farmers

Extension Staff

ARSIC Staff

University Students

ARSINC/SARDI Staff

5.1.2.2 Training/workshops, study tours in Vietnam:

22nd-24th September, 2007 an introduction workshop had been successfully organized in Cua Lo, Nghe An province The objectives of the workshop were to introduce the

primary results of the project on clam hatchery and clam husbandry work and to discuss the plan for developing collaboration of on- farm trials

Plate 1 showing the study tour and workshop

The invited participants included leaders of RIA1, leaders and technicians of the National Fisheries Extension Center and Provincial Fisheries Extension Center of 6 provinces and innovative farmers who were interested in clam culture (Appendix A) At the workshop,

a lot of suggestion, comments as well as expression of interest on the clam culture

technology have been recorded The aquaculture technicians and farmers also expressed their concerns about the clam culture in brackish water ponds, poly-culture with prawn and requested more research information (Refer to MS9)

In order to formally introduce the clam production technology and to explain the operational procedure for on-farm trials, a training/workshop was held from 24th to 28th March, 2008 at Giao Te Hotel in Cua Lo Town, Nghe An Province Participants included leader of the project from Australia and Project team from ARSINC, provincial officers from local fisheries department, and farmers who interested in participating clam culture from 6 North Centre provinces (Appendix B) In addition to introduce about project, role

of farmers/ARSINC, farmer selection criteria and etc., a technical lecturer was provided the lectures that content about inter tidal clam culture, pond clam culture, rotational culture of clam in prawn ponds, and the methods of data collection

The study tour was conducted for 12 farmers from 6 provinces on 23 April 2008 to visit a newly established clam hatchery at Ly Nhan, Ho Chi Minh City This study tour was a part of the training/workshop programs for demonstration of the clam culture trials The aim of this study tours is that farmers to understand the natural nursery areas of clam as

well as introduce the original place where the clam, Meretrix lyrata has been translocated

into the North and Central parts of Vietnam Further more, farmers visited a newly established clam hatchery at Ly Nhan village, Can Gio district This hatchery has been constructed by ARSINC in collaboration with Van Xuan University The hatchery has the capacity of producing 50 million spat per season The list of 12 farmers participated study tour in Ho Chi Minh City is provided in the Appendix C

5.1.3 ‘On farm’ trials ( Demonstration)

On-farm trial started in May 2008 Total 36 farmers participated on demonstration trial with 3 modals, devided into 2 periods: there were 24 farmers participated in the initial demonstration trials in two models of clam production including pond culture and inter-tidal clam culture and 12 farmers afterwards participated on rotational pond clam-shrimp culture modal The list of farmers participating in the demonstration trial is provided in the Appendix D

The demonstration program was well supported by ARSIC and Provincial extension staff by providing technical support and monitoring (plate 2)

Plate 2 showing farmer participated demonstration farm and staff visit as part of technical support and monitoring program Farmer participated in the collection of data

5.1.4 Hatchery establishment, management and transferred technologies

ARSINC has collaborated with some private hatcheries to produce clam spat for

demonstrating and transferring the technology that developed by ARSINC/SARDI:

- Hai Tuan Ltd Company, Kim Son Commune, Kim Bang District, Ninh Binh province

- Marine Seed Production Central, Hoang Thanh Commune, Hoang Hoa District, Thanh Hoa province

- Clam hatchery at Ly Nhan village, Can Gio district, Ho Chi Minh City (in collaboration with Van Xuan Technical College)

There are some centers/private hatcheries has requested for transferring clam culture technology such as Aquaculture Seed Production Center in Hue, private hatchery in Tien Hai district, Thai Binh province

5.2 Capacity building

5.2.1 ARSINC

Since April 2006 to April 2008, 19 staff have been provided 4998 days working for different activities of project (Table 1)

Table 1: List of staff and their working days

Provided days Name of staff

April-Sep,

2006

Oct.-Mar.,

2007

April-Oct,

2007

Nov.2007-Apr.2008

10 Mr Tran Viet Tuan 105 105

11 Ms Le Thi Huyen 105 105

12 Mr Mai Va Ha 63

13 Ms Le Thi May 105

14 Mr.Le Van Khoi 63

15 Mr.Ha Duc Thang 63

Total 1428 1092 1239 1239

9 seniors and technical staff of project directly involved in the project activities (4 of that had chance to participate on international training in Australia) Other 10 staff from

ARSINC as well as from RIA.1 partly involved in project activities Those staff had the opportunity to learn updated research methodology as well as to improve their

knowledge, experience in both hatchery and grow out /production of clam culture

Presently, ARSINC has the capability in designing, operating and managing aspects of both commercial grow-out and seed production In addition, communication skills of ARSINC staff has been improved through training provided in Australia and working with international experts who have been visited since 2006 to April 2008 (13 visiting of SARDI experts with total 149 days working in Vietnam)

Writing, reporting, presenting skills of ARSINC staff has significant improved through working with international experts, attending training/workshops, writing project reports, writing teaching material Detail information as following:

• Presentation at National Marine Aquaculture Conference in 2006, Ha Long city

Project team had a presentation to introduce the first result on hatchery production of clam

• Training course in collaboration with AIDA project in 2006

The project has been collaboration with AIDA project to organize training course on clam culture technology The project technicians gave the lectures for farmers in Hai Loc Commune, Hau Loc District, Thanh Hoa Province about clam culture

• Research presented at Asian Fisheries Forum in Cochin, India in November, 2007 (Nhu Van Can Chu, Chi Thiet and Martin S Kumar)

The research paper entitled “Effects of stocking biomass on growth, survival and

production of the two sizes of clam Meretrix lyrata cultured in the intertidal areas”

• Clam ( Meretrix lyrata) hatchery manual (Chu Chi Thiet and Martin S Kumar)

The manual reports collaborative research between the South Australian Research and

Development Institute (SARDI) and Aquaculture Research Sub-Institute for North Centre (ARSINC) The publication is intended for a wide readership, in particular for farmers, researchers and students in Vietnam

• Lecture of clam (Meretrix lyrata) culture technology (Clam culture in pond -

Clam culture in inter-tidal)

Technical guide was prepared and presented for participants of the introduction workshop

in March, 2008 (Refer to MS9)

5.2.2 Provincial staff

Over the period of the project, 32 provincial staff from 6 provinces (6 persons from Thanh Hoa province, 7 persons from Nghe An province, 6 persons from Ha Tinh

province, 3 persons from Quang Tri province, 4 persons from Thua Thien Hue province and 6 persons from Quang Binh province), they are leaders of departments, extensionists, technical staff, had opportunities to attend the training/workshop and go to study tours to different places (Appendix E) Among of them, 2 researchers from Nghe An and Thanh Hoa provinces have been sent for training abroad (in SARDI, Australia) From above activities, they have gained advances that help them not only to improve knowledge but