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ProjectCapacity Building For Silk and Orange Production - TCP/LAO/3802 2025
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No results found.In Lao PDR, both orange and silk production are significant but underutilized agricultural sectors. Despite the potential for self-sufficiency, domestic production of both products falls short of meeting local demand, necessitating substantial annual imports. Although oranges are cultivated in 90 percent of villages across the country, productivity remains low due to farmers’ reliance on traditional management techniques, including poor planting material, minimal fertilizer use, and inadequate pest control methods. These inefficiencies have led many farmers to convert their land to more profitable rubber plantations, reducing the availability of land suitable for fruit trees. Similarly, the silk industry, which operates across 15 of the country’s 17 provinces, experiences shortcomings, with annual production meeting less than 10 percent of domestic demand. Production remains largely traditional, with rural women managing the entire process manually from silkworm cultivation to weaving. Despite government efforts to strengthen the sector, it has yet to achieve standardization, automation, or commercial scale. Within this context, the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry (MAF) of Lao PDR requested technical assistance from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) to enhance orange and silk production, with a particular focus on strengthening smallholder farmers. -
DocumentSericulture: An Alternative Source of Income to Enhance the Livelihoods of Small-scale Farmers and Tribal Communities
Pro-Poor Livestock Policy Initiative: A Living from Livestock
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No results found.This paper provides a summary review of the development and implementation of BAIF’s sericulture programme in the Indian state of Maharashtra. BAIF Development Research Foundation (BAIF), a national NGO based in Pune, Maharashtra, has been active in developing and promoting better livelihood options for the rural poor in the country. BAIF adopted a multi-pronged strategic approach by introducing a technology-based integrated farming model, empowering and capacitating communities to take the lead in implementation and marketing of the produce, but providing strong backup support with an effective monitoring system. This paper provides an overview of the technological innovations that resulted from BAIF’s on-station and on-farm experimentation, the economics of sericulture along the entire value chain from cocoon to raw silk to silk fabric, and the environmental impact of two forms of sericulture – smallholder farmers using planted mulberry trees and tribal communities, relying on Arjuna / Asan trees in natural forests to feed the silkworms.
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