Topic: Organic Farming

““I had a poor standard of living,” admits Khamphew Khamdengmeuang, a farmer living in Xiengkiew village in Kham district, one of the five districts in the province of Xiengkhouang in Laos PDR, where the Commercial Organic Farming and its Institutionalisation (COFI) program was mounted by Sustainable Agriculture and Environment Development Association (SAEDA) in partnership with […]

““I thought I could harvest more crops with minor effects,” admits PhaKaoveu Karjar, a farmer from Dongdan village in the district of Khoun. It was 1995, and the use of chemicals was popular among the farmers then. PhaKaoveu experienced good results in his first year of chemical application, however over the next nine years, he […]