Saturday, 24 October 2009

CEDAC to Organize Organic Rice Federation


Written by DAP NEWS -- Saturday, 24 October 2009

(Posted by CAAI News Media)

The Cambodian Center for Study and Development in Agriculture (CEDAC) is organizing the 5th National Assembly of the Organic Rice Producers Federation to be held at the CEDAC head office in Phnom Penh on October 26, a press release from CEDAC said on Friday.

The objectives of the National Assembly are to provide understanding the process of community agricultural development, to examine the history of a cooperative in Germany and how it could provide a model for Cambodia, to disseminate a strategy for collecting the upcoming harvest, and to promote and strengthen the understanding of organic rice quality, CEDAC said. Keynote speakers include Dr. Yang Saing Koma, CEDAC president; Mak Seurn, Chief of the Department of Agriculture Extension of MAFF; Dr. Carl Josef Weiers, Senior expert on Cooperatives; the President of the Farmer and Nature Net (FNN); and the National Organic Rice Producers Federation.

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