Better-farming practices will be promoted in an educational project being developed in Samrong, Odar Meanchey, Cambodia. The NGO Green Shoots are setting up an Agritech Centre where they aim to train almost 250 students a year. The Centre will also be an agri-business incubation space to encourage local enterprise development.
https://www.greenshootsfoundation.org/


Squire & Partners and SAWA build community agriculture school in Cambodia
09/02/2019
Advanced farming techniques will be taught to 50 students at a time in the Agriculture Technology Centre, designed by Squire & Partners and SAWA in Krong Samraong, Cambodia.

The school, which is built from locally sourced materials including mud bricks, cassava render, and bamboo screens, will provide further learning for students from a network of 40 primary schools established by the Green Shoots Foundation.

It was constructed over a four-month period by contractors, farmers and volunteers from the UK.
https://www.dezeen.com/2019/02/09/green ... -cambodia/

The Youth, The Countryside, and The Future: Agri-Tech Centre in Cambodia
April 2019
Which brings me to The Green Shoots Foundation Agri-Tech Centre, a structure making use of the earthen-building technique and other eco-friendly forms of architecture to create a school for not just horticulture training but also rural development, nestled amongst the villages of Northwest Cambodia. The Green Shoots team and their Cambodian partner organization have taken their six years of experience working on school gardens to devise a curriculum aimed at out-of-job and out-of-school young people, giving them practical vocational skills while instilling professionalism and dignity in rural occupations. For us, it is more than just growing vegetables.

While we will run a 9 am to 5 pm curriculum, five days a week, we believe a student attending just a few hours a week can benefit immensely. During the construction weeks, youth from high schools and secondary schools and the local villages were invited for workshops to get a taste of what they would learn and the success that can be seen by regular attendance.

The team is now doing village outreach work with banners and hand-outs at the ready. This week, we are visiting nearly seven villages in the vicinity, informing residents about the new school, what courses we offer, and how the courses are structured. We plan to offer three main courses for the first quarter of 2019: horticulture training, chicken raising, and earth block-making. A few learning outcomes we want to achieve from the lessons are: we want students to understand the holistic nature of the Agri-Tech Centre; we want them to improve their grasp of theoretical concepts around climate change and the role of smallholder farming and the role of rural communities in food security; ultimately, we want them to not only see the bigger picture but also realize they play a key part in this; and we want our pedagogy to encourage ownership and responsibility of the site into the students.
Full article: https://foodtank.com/news/2019/04/opini ... ral-youth/

Agritech could enhance efficiencies, productivity, & learn more from analyzing data to improve on traditional farming practices. Source: AFP
Can agritech turn the tide for farmers in Southeast Asia?
By Joe Devanesan | 14 July, 2020

In Cambodia, local startup Agribuddy is employing crowdsourced approach to gathering agriculture data that can be shared. The social enterprise system is collected via Agribuddy’s mobile app from connected farmers, agricultural traders, and others in the local agribusiness value chain to solve problems directly facing their local agriculture economy. The result is collective intelligence.

The app’s network of smallholder farms, or ‘Buddies’, can not only share and access information, but can also build a credit scoring profile by interacting that will then enable access to microloans and credits. Agribuddy Cambodia’s managing director, Pakk Yourng, believes that connecting the stakeholders together in a unified system is what is helping transform the agricultural sector in Cambodia.
agriculture, farming, agritech

“We have thousands of farmers, hundreds of suppliers, Buddies, banks, and [if] we have to talk to them one by one– it’s very, very tough,” said Pakk Yourng.

Agribuddy was launched in end-2016 with the slogan of “Changing agriculture in Cambodia”. The agritech app appears to have made a significant enough impact in a little over three years, that it has even secured upwards of US$3 million in funding, to continue building out its ecosystem to possibly include neighboring agriculture regions.
Full article: https://techwireasia.com/2020/07/the-ri ... east-asia/