“With an immense spirit to develop the farming industry in ASEAN countries, farmers who are coming from 10 member states of ASEAN are driven together for the betterment of the farming industry in ASEAN. These farmers require as much support as possible from ASEAN and its partner, the EU.”

“We are sharing these impact stories of our beneficiaries throughout the four years implementation of AFOSP and how their effort of improving their farming industry impacted the lives of many.”

One of the activities, “The ASEAN Learning Series on Quality Management along the Agriculture Value Chain” conducted in Bangkok from 29 to 31 May 2018, targeted farmers across the region who were willing to improve the quality of their organic agricultural products; coinciding with 2018 Thaifex – Worldof Food Asia, the ASEAN Learning Series enables farmers to learn numerous ways to improve the quality of their agriculture products.”

“Him Noeun, one of the participants from Cambodia, feels very motivated to share what he learned from his visit to Thaifex with other farmers,especially about how to improve the quality of organic products and how to do the post-harvest process by using a solar dryer dome.“

“Him Noeun informed us that he has expanded FNN to a level that he expected because during the event, he engaged with several major agricultural cooperatives. “FNN engaged with AMRU Rice Company, Khmer Organic Cooperative (KOC) and Signature of Asia (SoA) to link organic paddy, vegetable and chicken to markets,” he said with great enthusiasm. “We even have the chance to facilitate 11 agricultural cooperatives to establish a collective natural product shop located in Phnom Penh.” Him Noeun genuinely felt that the ASEAN Learning Series Thaifex has taught him to build connections in terms of business development and agricultural cooperative initiative support.”

Read more: AFOSP_Impact Story

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