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Project Description
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Project Description
In Viet Nam, Cassava plant s role (Manihot esculenta Crantz) has been quickly converted from crops into industrial plant at a high speed of development in the first years of the 21st century. Viet Nam cassava starch is ranked the second in the world after Thailand. The country has 53 cassava flour processing factories which are in operation with total processing capacity of 2.2-3.8 million tones of fresh cassava per year and 7 factories which are being built. How to make biological alcohol from cassava (bio ethanol) is being an issue of interest. In 2007, the area of cassava nationwide reached more than 490 thousand ha, increase by 4.7% compared to 2006. Cassava plant requires little investment, simple technique of planting and care, allows active harvesting and planting on slopes of over 30 degrees and in dry regions, therefore, many farmers destroy sugar-cane, even forests without authority for cassava cultivation. To grow cassava in an effective and sustainable way, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development has directed to minimize the expansion of cassava planting area, especially self-decided planting of cassava in the region already used for planting other plants and the highly sloping areas. In recent years, in the South Central Coast, the area of cassava plant has been increasing, in 2005 the area was 2.8 times that of 2000, of which Phu Yen, Quang Ngai and Binh Dinh have a highest speed of cassava area expansion. Along with the rapid increase of the area, yield of cassava also increased remarkably from 8.88 tons/ ha in 2000 to 15.97 tons / ha in 2005. Most provinces now have no policy for the sustainable development of cassava. This fact is alarming because cassava is making land poor quickly leading to the risk of land degradation. Binh Dinh province with a large area of gray land(AC: Acrisols), which account for 70.7% of the total land area is quite suitable for a number of industrial plants including cassava. Cassava area of Binh Dinh planned by the province was 10 thousand ha in 2010, but in 2007, it was 13 thousand ha with the capacity of 19 tons / ha. In 2008, the area of cassava will be kept stable at about 12.5 thousand ha, capacity of 21 tons / ha, yield 260 thousand tons, providing enough materials for starch producers. To solve the problem of land degradation and wild land in mountainous areas and to increase economic efficiency, improve living standards, reduce status of land degradation by planting cassava cultivation, cassava should be sustainably planted. The objective of the project: Building policies for supporting sustainable development of cassava to contribute to limiting land degradation and wild land, increasing productivity, quality and increasing income for communities on poor gray land in Binh Dinh Specific objectives: - Building and proposing policies for promotion of sustainable cassava production in Binh Dinh province - Building models of sustainable cassava cultivation on poor gray land. Main activities: Policy development: - Investigating, making PRA surveys for assessment on economic efficiency of land use and degradation of land for cultivation and production of cassava in the whole system of crop cultivation on land on slopes - Defining the inadequacies in planning, policies relating to cassava production in local areas - Consulting community and other stakeholders on the results of the investigation and organizing seminars on 1) technical solutions for sustainable cassava cultivation 2) issues relating to policies and planning. - Making proposals on policies on sustainable production of cassava . Building models: - Building models of sustainable cassava cultivation on silver gray land through cassava intensive farming to improve the productivity and cassava sub-products on the unit of ha cultivation and mixed farming techniques between cassava plants and covering bean plants. Scale models: 75-100 households, 30 ha, Cat Lam commune, Cat Hiep, Phu Cat District, Binh Dinh province - Supporting households participating in the project of models implementation with the techniques and financial. .
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