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"Vietnamese rice farmer Van Dinh Nguyen is hardly on social media, but he has
become an influencer in a face-to-face sense in his own community.
Nguyen has encouraged 1,645 fellow rice farmers to take up more sustainable
methods through a “train-the-trainer” program rolled out over the past three
years by the Viet Nam Farmers Union (VNFU), in a bid to overcome farmers’ fears
that adopting greener practices would come at a cost to their output and
livelihoods.
Nguyen was one of around 20 influential and motivated farmers across six
communities the VNFU selected to be trained in how to change their approach to
rice farming in three key ways: reducing the burning of crop residue, offering
alternatives to chemical fertilizer and improving water management.
“Before the project was implemented, I saw that most local farmers burned their
rice straw and stubble after the harvest, excessively used chemical fertilizers
and continuously had rice plants flooded throughout the crop,” says Nguyen. He
is the chairman of the VNFU Nghia Hung local branch in the Bac Giang province,
in the country’s northeast."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
