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2015-02-16 Every February-March, rice fields are burned throughout Thailand. These very low temperature burns produce huge amounts of smoke that causes serious public health problems, as well as greenhouse gases, smog precursors, dioxin and furans. This practice also destroys valuable organic matter...
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2015-03-10 Many of the forages that farmers currently provide to their livestock are of low quality but are perceived as being readily available and low in cost. However, the opportunity costs of spending time seeking forages is often not considered; the time spent herding and tethering animals to find feed...
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2015-03-26 An overview of ECHO's regional Offices in West Africa, and in East Africa. David Erickson serves on the Executive Team of ECHO, Inc. and oversees the organization’s international activities. He also helps guide the strategic and organizational development of ECHO. His undergraduate studies were...
- We are pleased to announce that the 2015 ECHO Asia Agriculture and Community Development Conference will feature a poster session. This will provide conference attendees with another way, in addition to a talk or workshop, to share and exchange information. If you plan to attend the conference,...
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2015-03-26 Aquaponics looks like a real solution to food poisoning and environmental degradation through the extensive use of agro-chemical products. This method of food production which sees a symbiotic relationship between fish farming and crop farming is safe way of producing food naturally as God...
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2015-04-28 YAS 项目经理 Hermansyah 与 Anthony 和 Kusnadi 夫妇一同参加了在泰国召开的 2011 年 ECHO 亚洲农业与社区发展会议。他们的目的是与像他们那样的其他个人与组织建立联系，并了解可以在其领域实施的技术。在会议期间，到梅州大学蠕虫堆肥设施的考察对他们影响极大，该蠕虫堆肥设施专注于使用蠕虫分解有机废物，以便生成高质量的堆肥与蠕虫液肥。受到实地考察所见的启发，团队返回棉兰，开始进行各种蠕虫堆肥系统的实验。
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2015-06-02 Fah Mui is a local farmer and member of the ECHO Asia network. Below she shared her story and experience with System of Rice Intensification, or SRI, a tool promoted throughout the ECHO Asia network as a way to increase farmers’ rice yields and reduce their inputs.
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2015-07-14 In northern Thailand, widespread mono-cropping has led to environmental changes which have affected the natural habitat of bees, resulting in diminishing numbers and reduced honey production. As ECHO Asia already has a variety of different flower species, trialing honey production seemed like a...
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A how-to video describing how to build a low-cost seed germination chamber using local materials in Asia. This research was made possible by a generous gift from Hort CRSP and USAID.
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2015-08-21 We have recently been receiving an increase in requests for audio and video training resources, especially for resources in languages other than English. As a community, we have the opportunity to share resources and increase the overall impact of what we produce. Here is a great example: This...