A Lao Farmer's Best Practices in Green Water Management
GWM Best Practice of one smallholder farmer household: Mr. Sen Thol and Mrs. Suong Srim in Kbal Or village, Tuol Sophy commune, Or Raing Ov district, Tbaung Khmum province, Cambodia
GWM Best Practice of one smallholder farmer household: Mr. Sen Thol and Mrs. Suong Srim in Kbal Or village, Tuol Sophy commune, Or Raing Ov district, Tbaung Khmum province, Cambodia
Background: The ADB TA 8163 Core Agriculture Support Program Phase II, has provided support to selected Ministries of Agriculture in the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS) within the ambit of the Working Group on Agriculture. Following the success of the first round pilot projects in 2014-2015 and an Assessement mission on lessons learned , a second round of of pilot projects were launched in late 2016 on Green Water Management (GWM) and on Nitogen Use Efficiency {NUE).
The Green Water Management (GWM) project is the first project of Core Agricultural Support Program Phase 2 (CASP2) under ADB TA 8163 to systematically address gaps in institutional and individual capacity in affected rural communities to manage agricultural water resources in a climate change affected situations.
Green Water Management project (GWM) is aimed at increasing agriculture productivity and producing safe food products through adoption of the GWM technology on a sustainable climate friendly agriculture (CFA) farm that leads to reduce poverty through income generation from the CFA farms.