Leaflets – Khmer

Making silage is a method of preserving and storing green feed through anaerobic fermentation (without oxygen). Silage can be made from a diversity of forage materials and stored for periods when feeds are less available or farmers busy with other activities.

This June 2025 technical leaflet from Rural Development Association (RDA) in Laos is a step-by-step guide to integrated rice–fish farming, explaining how to prepare fields, choose suitable rice and fish species, manage stocking, feeding, and maintenance, and outlining benefits, challenges, and field results from pilot villages.

This June 2025 technical leaflet presents BanSuaneAiOun Organic Farm’s method for producing organic cucumber seeds. It explains how on-farm seed production reduces costs, preserves traditional varieties, and improves quality. The guide details optimal growing conditions, land preparation, planting, watering, pest management, and seed collection, yielding 100–150 seeds per fruit. It emphasizes using organic fertilizers, protecting against pests, harvesting fully mature cucumbers, and storing seeds properly to ensure sustainability and local seed diversity.

The leaflet provides practical guidance on organic vegetable cultivation in Pek District, Xiangkhouang Province, Laos. It outlines methods for improving soil fertility and structure through compost and plant residues, managing pests with sun exposure, and ensuring proper drainage and moisture. It explains two bed preparation techniques, seasonal land improvements, mulching for weed suppression and moisture retention, and watering schedules adapted to seasonal conditions. The guide also covers organic fertilization, crop rotation to reduce pests and diseases, sowing and transplanting methods, integrated cropping for sustainability, and best practices for harvesting to maintain vegetable freshness.

The resource explains biofertilizer production in Yone village, Xiengkhouang Province, based on farmer experience. It highlights compost as a key input for soil health, recycling, and reducing chemical use. The process involves mixing dry animal manure with burnt rice husks, adding bran and optional legumes, and fermenting with a sugar-based bio-extract for about seven days. Proper storage ensures quality for up to a year. Application rates depend on soil quality, with compost gradually improving fertility over time, allowing reduced quantities in subsequent years.

This leaflet describes an ecological system in Son La, Vietnam, for treating wastewater from coffee cherry processing through solid separation, anaerobic and aerobic treatment with yeast, and final storage, enabling safe reuse for irrigation and producing organic fertilizer.

This leaflet explains how farmers in northwest Vietnam process coffee husks into organic fertilizer. It details the benefits—improved soil health, reduced environmental pollution, lower fertilizer costs, and support for sustainable farming—and provides step-by-step guidance on composting. The method involves mixing coffee husks with manure, lime, phosphate, urea, and a microbial solution, ensuring proper moisture, and covering the pile to retain nutrients. It was published in June 2025 by NOMAFSI with ALiSEA support, based on a successful farmer experience.

This recipe focuses on transforming sweet potatoes into crispy chips, providing farmers with a simple method to reduce food waste and create a value-added product. This approach not only helps to preserve surplus crops but also opens opportunities to reach new markets with a branded and exportable product.

This leaflet presents simple, biodegradable pesticide recipes made from plants such as lemongrass, galangal, turmeric, chili, garlic, and tobacco, used to control insects, fungi, and other crop pests. It explains how to prepare, dilute, and apply each formula, with guidance on safe handling, storage, and spraying for effective, low-cost pest management in vegetable farming.

An technical guide explaining step by step nursery practices for cultivating healthy seedlings.