Sustainable technologies for pest, disease and soil fertility management in smallholder vegetable production in china and vietnam

Objective

Smallholder vegetable farmers in many Asian countries are intensifying their market-oriented vegetable production with increased use of agrochemical inputs for pest and plant nutrition management. This results in increased damage to the natural resource base, while productivity and profitability gains are quickly eroded. This project will promote an environmentally sustainable and economically viable vegetable production sector in Sichuan, China and Northern Vietnam. Through a process of participatory technology development, the project will work on-farm with smallholder farmers to analyse their specific constraints and to develop and test new techniques to address pest, disease and soil fertility constraints that increase productivity, profitability and sustainability.

Fields of science

• social sciences › sociology › demography › fertility
• social sciences › economics and business › economics › production economics › productivity
• agricultural sciences › agriculture, forestry, and fisheries › agriculture › horticulture › vegetable growing

Programme(s)

• FP5-INCO 2 - Programme for research, technological development and demonstration on "Confirming the international role of Community research,1998-2002"

Topic(s)

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Call for proposal

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Funding Scheme

CSC - Cost-sharing contracts

Coordinator

AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS RESEARCH INSTITUTE

Address

Burgemeester Patijnlaan 19
2502 Den Haag (S-gravenhage)
Netherlands

Participants (7)

ALTERRA B.V.

Netherlands

Address

Droevendaalsesteeg 3a
6700 AA Wageningen

CONSEJO SUPERIOR DE INVESTIGACIONES CIENTIFICAS

Spain

Address

S/n,avenida De La Fama 1, S/n Apartado De Correos 195
30080 Murcia

HANOI AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY

Vietnam

Address

Trauquy, Gialam
Hanoi

INSTITUTE OF PLANT PROTECTION - SICHUAN ACADEMY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES

China

Address

Jingjusi Road, 20
61006 Chengdu

SICHUAN AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY

China

Address

Xinkang Road 37
625014 Ya'an

SOIL AND FERTILIZER INSTITUTE

China

Address

Jingjusi Road 20
610066 Chengdu

UNIVERSITAET HANNOVER

Germany

Address

Herrenhaeuser Strasse 2
30419 Hannover