rice, maize, cassava, sweet potato, farm and farming
Food crops are crops that used for food products for humans, the major sources of carbohydrates for energy and carbohydrate in diets.The main food crops of the world are corn (Zea Mays L.), rice (Oryza sativa L.), wheat (Triticum sp.), cassava (Manihot esculenta Crantz), potato (Solanum tuberosum L.),Barley (Hordeum vulgare L.), sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas L.) sorghum (Sorghum sp.), millet (Setaria L. Beauv , Panicum miliaceum L., Eleusine coracana L. Gaertn), Corn, rice and wheat account for about 89% of global food production and about 45% calories from all food . The main food crops in Vietnam as rice (7,414,000 ha), maize (1,125,000ha) , cassava (556,000 ha) and sweet potato (162,000 ha) by 2008.
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Food crops are crops that used for food products for humans, the major sources of carbohydrates for energy and carbohydrate in diets.The main food crops of the world are corn (Zea Mays L.), rice (Oryza sativa L.), wheat (Triticum sp.), cassava (Manihot esculenta Crantz), potato (Solanum tuberosum L.),Barley (Hordeum vulgare L.), sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas L.) sorghum (Sorghum sp.), millet (Setaria L. Beauv , Panicum miliaceum L., Eleusine coracana L. Gaertn), Corn, rice and wheat account for about 89% of global food production and about 45% calories from all food . The main food crops in Vietnam as rice (7,414,000 ha), maize (1,125,000ha) , cassava (556,000 ha) and sweet potato (162,000 ha) by 2008.
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Sustainable cassava production in Vietnam
The history and recent developments
FOOD CROPS: Cassava in Vietnam is among the four most important food crops. Cassava now an important source of cash income to small farmers. In 2008, cassava fresh root production in Vietnam was about 9.39 million tones, up from only 1.99 million tones in 2000 and marked increases in yield, from 8.36 t/ha in 2000 to 16.90 t/ha in 2008. Vietnam has made the fastest progress in application of new technologies in breeding and new cultivar propagation in Asia. Such progress has been considered as a result of many factors, of which the success in breeding and application of new technologies were the main contributing factors. Cassava yields and production in several provinces have more than doubled due to the planting of new high-yielding cassava varieties more than 420,000 ha by 2007/08, (more than 500,000 ha by 2008/09, mainly KM94, KM140, KM98-5, KM98-1, SM937-26, KM98-7 varieties, and the adoption of more sustainable production practices. Cassava in Vietnam: a successful story
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Selection and development of hybrid cassava variety KM 140 (VIFOTECH Award Jan.19, 2010)
Sweet sorghum in Vietnam
http://cayluongthuc.blogspot.com/2009/10/tuyet-voi-cay-lua-mien-ngot.html
Dr.William D Dar
Director General of ICRISAT
Empowering the Poor through Bio-Energy
ICRISAT is working hard to ensure that the billions of dollars now flowing into bio-energy benefit the poor, rather than marginalizing them.
The risk is real. Bio-energy today is mostly derived from agriculture, and biofuel crops could take land away from growing food. Without conscious pro-poor action, influencing government policies and technologies, the poor may become poorer, and the hungry, hungrier.
As an agriculturally-oriented, non-profit, international organization dedicated to ending hunger and poverty in the tropical drylands through research-for-development, ICRISAT's mission and capacities position it ideally to contribute, together with partners, to pro-poor BioPower development.
The risk is real. Bio-energy today is mostly derived from agriculture, and biofuel crops could take land away from growing food. Without conscious pro-poor action, influencing government policies and technologies, the poor may become poorer, and the hungry, hungrier.
As an agriculturally-oriented, non-profit, international organization dedicated to ending hunger and poverty in the tropical drylands through research-for-development, ICRISAT's mission and capacities position it ideally to contribute, together with partners, to pro-poor BioPower development.
Overall Goal and Objectives
1. The overall goal:
The overall goal of the project is to improve the livelihoods of smallholder farmers and landless rural households by enabling use of improved technology for bio-energy crops cultivation and enabling production-supply chain linkages through an innovative coalition of partners involving farmers, researchers, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), and bio-fuel industry for sustainable production of bio-fuels in the targeted countries. It is expected to lead to self reliance (sustainable and environment-friendly) in energy needs for household and agricultural operations as well as help rehabilitate degraded lands.
2. Objectives:
a) To develop improved high biomass and juice yielding sweet-stalk and brown mid-rib sorghum cultivars and high biomass and/or sugary cassava varieties; standardize propagating techniques for true breeding large-scale multiplication of high yielding collections of jatropha, and evaluate them for seed yield and oil content;
b) To conduct regional testing using available sweet sorghum and cassava cultivars and established jatropha nurseries; to fine tune production packages including pest and disease management with the selected sweet sorghum and cassava lines; and “plus” tree jatropha collections for each of the target countries to maximize productivity and build seed systems to produce sufficient stocks of seed materials for each country for each crop;
c) To facilitate the development of enterprises and mechanism(s) for supply of inputs for crop production, and buy-back of sweet sorghum stalks, cassava roots, and jatropha oil seeds by the industry for bio-ethanol and bio-diesel production respectively;
d) To develop and evaluate improved technologies to assess the role of various by-products as organic manure and/or pesticide; and
e) To build the knowledge base of farmers, NGOs and line department staff on the importance of bio-fuel needs, various technical aspects related to their production, cultivation practices and their seed (sexual/asexual) systems, and supply chain management.
The overall goal of the project is to improve the livelihoods of smallholder farmers and landless rural households by enabling use of improved technology for bio-energy crops cultivation and enabling production-supply chain linkages through an innovative coalition of partners involving farmers, researchers, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), and bio-fuel industry for sustainable production of bio-fuels in the targeted countries. It is expected to lead to self reliance (sustainable and environment-friendly) in energy needs for household and agricultural operations as well as help rehabilitate degraded lands.
2. Objectives:
a) To develop improved high biomass and juice yielding sweet-stalk and brown mid-rib sorghum cultivars and high biomass and/or sugary cassava varieties; standardize propagating techniques for true breeding large-scale multiplication of high yielding collections of jatropha, and evaluate them for seed yield and oil content;
b) To conduct regional testing using available sweet sorghum and cassava cultivars and established jatropha nurseries; to fine tune production packages including pest and disease management with the selected sweet sorghum and cassava lines; and “plus” tree jatropha collections for each of the target countries to maximize productivity and build seed systems to produce sufficient stocks of seed materials for each country for each crop;
c) To facilitate the development of enterprises and mechanism(s) for supply of inputs for crop production, and buy-back of sweet sorghum stalks, cassava roots, and jatropha oil seeds by the industry for bio-ethanol and bio-diesel production respectively;
d) To develop and evaluate improved technologies to assess the role of various by-products as organic manure and/or pesticide; and
e) To build the knowledge base of farmers, NGOs and line department staff on the importance of bio-fuel needs, various technical aspects related to their production, cultivation practices and their seed (sexual/asexual) systems, and supply chain management.
ICRISAT and IFAD call for a second Green Revolution
CROPSFORBIOFUEL to follow up Checkbiotech.org (press release) Wednesday, December 2, 2009 . This clarion call was given by the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) Director General William Dar and the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) President Kanayo Nwanze in dialogue with the media.
A second Green Revolution must be waged to end hunger and poverty in the drylands.
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EDUCATION AND SCIENCE
THE VOLUNTEER
Music : TỰ NGUYỆN
Nhạc và lời: Trương Quốc Khánh
If a bird, I would be a white pigeon.
If a flower, I would be a sun-flower.
If a cloud, I would be a whole warm cloud
A human, I will die for my country.
A bird, I would rise high my soft wings
From South to the North, I give good news.
A flower, I blossom the early love
With all the hearts enthralled by the peace.
A cloud, I would fly to all the sky
To follow our heroic history
A human, just once before I die
With my brothers, standing, raising the flag.
English translation
by TuyetHop and BichNga
Voluntariness
If a bird, I would be a white pigeon.
If a flower, I would be a sun flower.
If a cloud, I wold be a warm cloud.
A man, I will die for our country.
Being a bird, I would raise the soft wings
From South to the North, all news are joined.
Being a flower, I effloresce the early love
With all the hearts are enthralled the peace.
Being a cloud, with the wind I fly all the sky.
There’s been a superb millenary, today we'll be catenary.
Being a man, before we die
We’ll stand up with you raise highly the flag.
NTTH
TRAVEL AND PLACES
From Japan to Vietnam
by Prof. K. Kawano (Japan)
Cassava and Vietnam: Now and Then
HoangKimVietNam on Hubpages. "My ten years of close collaboration with my cassava breeding colleagues in the 1990s and the reunion with them in this trip completely changed my assessment of the Vietnamese. As evidenced by the series of my reporting here, they are industrious, insightful, considerate and indefatigable, as if to emulate General Vo Nguyen Giap" Kazuo Kawano said.
Throughout my many years of association with Vietnam, I have gotten to know many people, whom I seem to be able to categorize in retrospect. I got my first impression of the Vietnamese from the several Vietnamese trainees staying at the International Rice Research Institute, Los Baños, Philippines in 1963 and it was not particularly a favorable one. They appeared rather uncaring, cynical and apathetic, if not selfish, contemptuous, and corrupt. I may be too harsh and judgmental on them; nevertheless, Halberstam wrote about this type of people belonging to the upper strata of the South Vietnamese society during the same period so vividly and critically in 「The Making of a Quagmire」that my judgment might not have been too far away from the reality.
My ten years of close collaboration with my cassava breeding colleagues in the 1990s and the reunion with them in this trip completely changed my assessment of the Vietnamese. As evidenced by the series of my reporting here, they are industrious, insightful, considerate and indefatigable, as if to emulate General Vo Nguyen Giap. I might be a little too positively partial to those friends of mine. Nevertheless, I have a similar feeling toward some of my colleagues in Rayong, Thailand and Nanning, China to count a few. During the two decades of post-war Japan, we seem to have many Japanese of this category as well.
Then comes the mass of the population who just want tomorrow to be better than today. In this trip, I was deeply impressed and touched in meeting many people who seemed never to doubt tomorrow is better than today. This reminds me of the Japanese during the next two decades of post-war where the majority of the population was seeing a rosy future. Now in Japan, more than 30,000 people commit suicide annually and the main reason for this act is believed to be hopelessness to the present and future. Needless to say, Vietnam is not without problems such as the incompleteness of juridical system or rampant corruption to name some. Yet, the proportion of people feeling happy seems to be far higher in Vietnam than in Japan now. It is fascinating to imagine where these former colleagues of mine would further lead this society to.
See more: Kazuo Kawano and Vietnam
Cassava and Vietnam: Now and Then
A Glimpse of Lao Cassava Workshop
Current situation of cassava in Vietnam and the breeding of improved cultivars
PUBLICATIONS AND E - BOOKS
Cassava and Vietnam: Now and Then
HoangKimVietNam on Hubpages. "My ten years of close collaboration with my cassava breeding colleagues in the 1990s and the reunion with them in this trip completely changed my assessment of the Vietnamese. As evidenced by the series of my reporting here, they are industrious, insightful, considerate and indefatigable, as if to emulate General Vo Nguyen Giap" Kazuo Kawano said.
Throughout my many years of association with Vietnam, I have gotten to know many people, whom I seem to be able to categorize in retrospect. I got my first impression of the Vietnamese from the several Vietnamese trainees staying at the International Rice Research Institute, Los Baños, Philippines in 1963 and it was not particularly a favorable one. They appeared rather uncaring, cynical and apathetic, if not selfish, contemptuous, and corrupt. I may be too harsh and judgmental on them; nevertheless, Halberstam wrote about this type of people belonging to the upper strata of the South Vietnamese society during the same period so vividly and critically in 「The Making of a Quagmire」that my judgment might not have been too far away from the reality.
My ten years of close collaboration with my cassava breeding colleagues in the 1990s and the reunion with them in this trip completely changed my assessment of the Vietnamese. As evidenced by the series of my reporting here, they are industrious, insightful, considerate and indefatigable, as if to emulate General Vo Nguyen Giap. I might be a little too positively partial to those friends of mine. Nevertheless, I have a similar feeling toward some of my colleagues in Rayong, Thailand and Nanning, China to count a few. During the two decades of post-war Japan, we seem to have many Japanese of this category as well.
Then comes the mass of the population who just want tomorrow to be better than today. In this trip, I was deeply impressed and touched in meeting many people who seemed never to doubt tomorrow is better than today. This reminds me of the Japanese during the next two decades of post-war where the majority of the population was seeing a rosy future. Now in Japan, more than 30,000 people commit suicide annually and the main reason for this act is believed to be hopelessness to the present and future. Needless to say, Vietnam is not without problems such as the incompleteness of juridical system or rampant corruption to name some. Yet, the proportion of people feeling happy seems to be far higher in Vietnam than in Japan now. It is fascinating to imagine where these former colleagues of mine would further lead this society to.
See more: Kazuo Kawano and Vietnam
Cassava and Vietnam: Now and Then
A Glimpse of Lao Cassava Workshop
Current situation of cassava in Vietnam and the breeding of improved cultivars
PUBLICATIONS AND E - BOOKS
FOOD CROPS IN VIETNAM
- Cassava in Vietnam: a successful story
Initial Contacts
In September 1988, Dr. Kazuo Kawano (CIAT cassava breeder) and Dr. Reinhardt Howeler (agronomist), both working at the CIAT Cassava Office for Asia in Bangkok, visited Institute of Agricultural Science for Southern Vietnam (IAS) in Ho Chi Minh city. They discussed with Dr. Tran The Thong, Director, Dr. Mai Van Quyen, Deputy Director of IAS, and Mr. Hoang Kim (Director of Hung Loc Agricultural Research Center belong to IAS), possible future collaboration. They also visited Hung Loc Center and cassava growing areas in Dong Nai and Tay Ninh provinces. (see more ...)
- Cassava News in Center Point
- Cassava pest in Latin America Africa and Asia
- Crop diversification in Vietnam
- Current situation of cassava in Vietnam and the breeding of improved cultivars
- Dong Nai farmers embrace new technology
- Dạy và học trực tuyến cây lúa
- Foodcrops in Vietnam
- Sweet Potato Varieties in Vietnam
- Learning by doing
- Norman Borlaug di sản niềm tin và nổ lực
- Selection and development of hybrid cassava variety KM 140
- Up to date of 6th International Rice Genetics Symposium
- Vietnam’s exports see breakthrough in 2010
- Visit regarding cassava pests and diseases
LINKS
- Biofuel Information
- Crop Explorer
- Crops for Biofuel
- FAO Global Cassava Partnership
- http://cassavaviet.blogspot.com/
- http://cayluongthuc.blogspot.com/
- http://tinkhoahoc.blogspot.com/
- http://vi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sắn
- http://vi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thành_viên:Dayvahoc
- Status of cassava in Vietnam
- Danforth Center Research Overview
GLOBAL CASSAVA PARTNERSHIPS GCP1
“Cassava : Meeting the Chalenges of the New Millennium”
July 21-25, 2008 IPBO – Ghent University – Belgium
Cassava is one of the major subsistence crops in the world. It feeds more than a billion people every day, through it is today exploited at about 15% of it current potential. Many factores account for this situation , most of them due to the fact that it is a vegetatively propagated crop, therefore associated with a lot of biotic constraints. However, it natural drought resistance and it semi-perennial botanical nature offer incomparable advantages for poor farmers. Expressing the full potential of cassava would turn this subsistence crop into an industrial one. This evolution already took place in several Asian coutries and South America, and in some rare places in Africa. It the largest number of people in developing countries use cassava as a crop to solve the food problem in the world and to change the economy of developing countries.
During the First Scientific meeting of the Global Cassava Partnership (GCP-1), we will review the status of knowledge about cassava, to show its potential and demonstrate the possibilities to unlock that potential !
The first day of the meeting, dubbed “Donor Day” is entirely dedicated to illustrate all the recent initiatives taken in cassava research and development, and to promote a discussion about the gaps in knowledge and funding.
During the week, 115 presentations by all the world most knowledgeable cassava experts, gathered in 13 concurrent sessions, intend to review all the recent advances made in cassava science and cassava improvement. Three days of poster sessions, with open 200 posters, will provide an opportunity to exchange, talk and argue about issues important for casava.
More importantly, the goal of this International Cassava Forum is to convince donors of the necessity to invest more , to strengthen the synergy in the cassava community, as well as to encourage more scientists to work with this very important crop, the third source of calories in the developing world, which feeds more than a billion people every day!
Dr. Claude M. Fauquest
Organizer of the First Scientific meeting of the Global Cassava Partnership
July 21-25, 2008 IPBO – Ghent University – Belgium
Cassava is one of the major subsistence crops in the world. It feeds more than a billion people every day, through it is today exploited at about 15% of it current potential. Many factores account for this situation , most of them due to the fact that it is a vegetatively propagated crop, therefore associated with a lot of biotic constraints. However, it natural drought resistance and it semi-perennial botanical nature offer incomparable advantages for poor farmers. Expressing the full potential of cassava would turn this subsistence crop into an industrial one. This evolution already took place in several Asian coutries and South America, and in some rare places in Africa. It the largest number of people in developing countries use cassava as a crop to solve the food problem in the world and to change the economy of developing countries.
During the First Scientific meeting of the Global Cassava Partnership (GCP-1), we will review the status of knowledge about cassava, to show its potential and demonstrate the possibilities to unlock that potential !
The first day of the meeting, dubbed “Donor Day” is entirely dedicated to illustrate all the recent initiatives taken in cassava research and development, and to promote a discussion about the gaps in knowledge and funding.
During the week, 115 presentations by all the world most knowledgeable cassava experts, gathered in 13 concurrent sessions, intend to review all the recent advances made in cassava science and cassava improvement. Three days of poster sessions, with open 200 posters, will provide an opportunity to exchange, talk and argue about issues important for casava.
More importantly, the goal of this International Cassava Forum is to convince donors of the necessity to invest more , to strengthen the synergy in the cassava community, as well as to encourage more scientists to work with this very important crop, the third source of calories in the developing world, which feeds more than a billion people every day!
Dr. Claude M. Fauquest
Organizer of the First Scientific meeting of the Global Cassava Partnership
Cassava: A Gift to the World and a Challenge for Scientists
The Global Cassava Partnership, a network of scientists and developpers of cassava, aims to improve cassava by promoting the investment of science and technology worldwide. In the past decade the cassava research community has made impressive progress in tackling important production constraints in the areas of assembling large conlections of landraces and willspecies, breeding for pest and disease resistance and added value traits, development of low-cost rapid propagation systems, implementation of genomics tools for marker-assisted selectionand virus diagnostics, development of transgeniccassava for nutritions traits and for resistance to viruses, and the establishment of regional public and private sector partnership. Despit these improvements, yields in large parts of the cassava production areas are well below the potential of the germplasm developed. Limitations exist and are preventing the rapid formation of the next generationof cassava scientists on a large scale. Gaps still persist in the areas of technology transfer and in delivering added values for casava end users. The GCP has identified several opportunities and strategies to improve cassava production systems and they will be presented and discussed during the First Scientific meeting of the Global Cassava Partnership (GCP 1).
Joe Tohme and Claude Fauquet
Co-Chairs of the Global Cassava Partnership
Joe Tohme and Claude Fauquet
Co-Chairs of the Global Cassava Partnership
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Wearing sweater when it's rather cold.
Winter comes to an end, and early Spring is coming.
Everyday, we care good deeds kindly.
Distant love turns out to be close together.
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