Cambodia Initiative on CBFA 30 June, 2009

Normal rice community/Cooperative Corn Vegetables Animal Feeder Initiative Normal rice community/Cooperative Corn Vegetables Animal Feeder

Challenges Resource person to support the group Farmer knowledge/Skill in the agro-business Cannot processing in local area/Country (Depend on the neighbor country) Some crop seed is hybrid (Vegetable and corn) Gov’t have policy to support farmer but not practical properly yet

Important support Capacity building to farmer on CBFA Technical working group on CBFA (Multi-Stakeholder) Mobilize resource person/Technical Assistance to work specific on CBFA Establish seed entrepreneur at local level on vegetable, corn and rice Support SME to mobilize local products for processing and distribution Mobilize fund for operating some pilot project

Policy Push government to apply and practical on the policy for support on marketing Push CBFA to be popular inside each country Push Gov’t to make national policy on CBFA and regional level

Proposed LSFM phase 2 Support SME that working closely with farmers by using farmers’ products to processing, value added and marketing Providing more revolving fund to farmer conducting some action research to improve their innovation and support some rural enterprise (SME) in term of loan or revolving fund Dialogue organizing at local level in order to expand and promoting the LSFM Supporting community business that have potentially on specific products and as well as foods facility such rice, cash crops, animal feeder and vegetable