Partnership Report Vietnam Taskforce Fruits and Vegetable Group Tuesday 22 September 2015 Page 1

Page 2 OUR PURPOSE To introduce best practices for sustainably improving crop yields and quality for fruits and vegetable farming via the establishment of an experimental farm in Lamdong province. The farm will demonstrate best practices and provide education and will measure the impact on local farmers in terms of yields and quality. Initial focus will be on potato, if the model is successful it can be replicated and scaled up for other crops and locations.

Page 3 Processing New Variety Introduction & Sprout Inhibitor Registration Progress -FL2215 is in a final stage for commercial approval from MARD -FL2027: mass trial production upcoming season for a registration -Crisp4All: being conducted trials for registration from one of PepsiCo Vendors to use in the North both for processed as well as table potatoes -Expanding wet season using FL2215 -Sprout inhibitor trial and registration -Introduce one new variety into farming system every two years New Development and Challenge -Registration: long process; hard to apply new, and advanced varieties or products in to Agriculture to tackle the challenge of supply chain, i.e lower the cost (can we leverage the test results from other countries where it applicable to our country?) -Seed technology: provide advanced variety as well as low cost seeds to farmers locally (Government supports)

Page 4 Training and Rewarding FARMER TRAINING AND REWARDING (Photos: crop) -Annually training farmers on potato cultivation practices -Reward best farmers with token, prize, and certificate of recognition

Page 5 LOCAL POTATO VOLUME GROWTH -Exploring potatoes exportation to nearby countries – No available CIPC (sprout inhibitors) prevent stored potatoes exportation -The dry season in Vietnam is also a good season on nearby countries

Facility for Sustainable Entrepreneurship and Food Security (FDOV) potato project Growing out of poverty with potato

Completed successful first potato season Trained 519 farmers in potato production in the Red River Delta 62% of trainees was female 14 potato production advisors trained to provide farmers extension services during coming potato season in North-Vietnam Two potato demonstration farms established Hai Duong Lam Dong Consumer survey among 1,000 consumers in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City Potato variety Sinora added on the national list of varieties to be commercially sold in Vietnam

Selected potato production enhancing equipment Semi-automatic potato planter Side shaker potato digger 34 HP tractor