Living in isolation My name is Indika. I live in Matale district, Sri Lanka with my husband and two children. My husband is a farmer just like many other people in our district. Although Matale is believed to be the “center” of the country, the reality is we were isolated. Our area is quite a […]
In the village of Rahathungoda in Nuwaraeliya District, Sri Lanka during the harvest season, many farmers are ‘ensnared’ by intermediary sellers that purchase their vegetables on despoiling low rates. Because of this, farmers fall into a helpless and desolated situation. Sometimes, they could not even earn back the money they invested in their farms. To […]
The National Implementing Agency of AFOSP-MTCP2 program in Cambodia held a training course on strategic planning for national farmer organisations under the framework of MTCP2. The training took place from 30 to 31 January 2019 at Sunway Hotel Phnom Penh and was attended by 24 participants from FNN: Farmer and Nature Net, FAEC: Facilitation Association […]
Farmers organizations (FOs) under the AFOSP-MTCP2 program participated in the 8th ASEAN Cooperative Business Forum held at the Prince Palace Hotel in Bangkok, Thailand on 26-27 February 2019. Representatives from ACEDAC as well as development partners also attended the forum. During the forum the participants exchanged and shared experiences in cooperative promotion and the success […]
AFOSP-MTCP2 farmer organizations participate in the Workshop on Developing Action Plan for Enhancing the Role of Agricultural Cooperative in the Global Value Chain on 28 February 2019 at the Prince Palace Hotel in Bangkok, Thailand. This workshop is co-organized by the consortium Asian Farmers’ Association and La Via Campesina together with the ASEAN Foundation, with […]
Vientianne capital, Laos – The Lao Farmer Network (LFN), the national implementing agency of AFOSP-MTCP2 in Laos, conducted a multi-sectoral partnership meeting involving the private, public, and producer including smallholder farmers in the country in Vientianne capital, Laos on 30 January 2019. The meeting aims to establish opportunities for partnership between different sectors in order […]
Although Sri Lanka is famous all over the world for its Ceylon tea, the first plantation crop under the British rule in Ceylon (the colonial name of Sri Lanka) was coffee. In the early years of British rule in the country, coffee was a very minor crop propagated by peasants. However, the coffee plantations were […]
In Bangladesh, there is a rampant use of hazardous pesticides in preserving sea fish. These chemical-coated fish are consumed by people all throughout the country and its byproducts are made into poultry feeds. Through MTCP2, four dry fish producer groups have been formed to produce dried fish without using pesticides. After going through theoretical and […]
