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Transfer rice cultivation techniques adapted to water logging and salinity to improve the community's capacity to maintain the efficiency of rice production in the coastal districts ( Tuy Phuoc, Phu Cat district) in Binh Dinh for the limitation of the fallow paddy land in saline conditions and increased seawater intrusion due to the impact of climate change

Tuy Phuoc and Phu Cat districts are on the lowlands of Dong dyke which are heavily afftected by increasing sea level rise, tide and seawater intrusion. The provincial climate change scenario has forcasted that the rice cultivation area along the Dong dyke would be inundated by seawater, penetrated more and more into rice field and the salinity concentration would be increased (more than 3/1000) and hence farmers would leave their fields uncultivated nor converted to aquaculture due to the contaminated water environment, high capital and technical requirements while the local farmers are familiar only with the rice cultivation and have no other extra jobs. Therefore, there are increasing needs for maintenance of rice production in the areas affected by climate change, minimizing fallow land and degenerated land by inundation and seawater intrusion. The project is thus designed to address the capacity building in rice production that is appropriate to inundation and salinity in communes located along Dong dyke of Tuy Phuoc district, Binh Dinh province and helps local people in maintaining rice production and minimizing rice land fallow and land degeneration, and to ensure food security and livelihood stability in harsh weather conditions caused by climate change.
The project is also formulated based on the results of the CBA project entitled ?Contributing to mitigate adverse impacts of inundation and seawater intrusion caused by sea level rise in order to develop sustainable agriculture production and food security in Phuoc Hoa commune, Tuy Phuoc district, Binh Dinh province? (CBA/VN/SPA/09/005).
The project targets to reach (i) Transfer technology through TOT (training of trainers) workshops, FFS trainings associated with demonstration models of rice intensification cultivation technology that is adaptive to waterlogging and seawater intrusion in order to enhance capacity for community affected by raining, flooding, tide and sea level rise caused by climate change in areas along Dong dyke of two districts: Tuy Phuoc (Phuoc Son and Phuoc Hoa comunes) and Phu Cat (Cat Chanh and Cat Tien communes) (ii) continue to raise awareness and strengthen capacity of local authorities and people on climate change associated with sustainable development of the locality in general and agriculture in particular through communication solutions, integrated with activities of local mass organizations.

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Grantee:

Union of Science and Technology Associations of Binh Dinh Province

Country:

Viet nam

Area Of Work:

Climate Change Mitigation

Operational Phase:

OP5 – Y4 (Jul 14 – Jun 15)

Grant Amount:

US$ 48,000.00

Co-Financing Cash:

US$ 10,642.00

Co-Financing in-Kind:

US$ 167,088.00

Project Number:

VNM/SGP/OP5/Y4/STAR/2014/07

Start Date:

8/2014

End Date:

6/2017

Status:

Satisfactorily Completed

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Project sustainability

The lessons learned from the project pilot will be the basis for continuing to look for other adaptive measures that are appropriate for the future implementation in order to address more effectively the short term and long term adverse impacts of climate change. The Binh Dinh Provincial People's Committee has made a decision to provide a counterpart fund of 20% of all GEF SGP projects from a scientific non-business budget.

Policy Influence

The model has received consensus and support of the provincial departments, branches and local governments at all levels from the provincial to district and commune levels which create favorable conditions for replication, transfer of the achieved results and integrate the project activities with other programes to expand and apply in the production areas.

Replication of project activities

The specialized agency (Department of Agriculture and Rural Development) has defined the necessity to apply rice cultivation methods adaptive to waterlogging and alum and seawater intrusion for the dyke areas of the two districts of Tuy Phuoc and Phu Cat through the large sample fields program of localities. The project technical solutions have been demonstrated through the model and were highly appreciated by the local authorities, agriculture sector and community; they are technically simple, based on scientific knowledge and proven in reality, and hence are easy to transfer, widely applied for areas with similar conditions as of the project area, which were identified in the Binh Dinh?s climate change impact scenarios (2009); these areas include lowland communes along the Dong dyke of the province.

Project Results

The project has achieved the following key results:

2.1. Results of training on transfer of participatory variety selection (PVS) and rice cultivation techniques to adapt waterlogging and alum and seawater intrusion
? Through the following activities: technical training and field workshop have transferred appropriate and adaptive rice production techniques to communities in the project area and neighbouring areas with the attendance of a total of 2,077 turns/farmers and the grassroots agriculture staff. Of which, there were 698 women, accounting for 34.1%. Specifically:
+ One ToT training course with 30 trainees;
+ Four PVS training courses with 80 turns/people in which female participants consisted of 30%;
+ 28 early season training courses: 1,367 turns/people, and women accounted for 35.11%;
+ 12 field trips: 600 turns/people, female participants: 32.33%.
? Integration of information on climate change, climate change adaptation techniques into communication programs, Binh Dinh?s mass media networks, training courses of Youth Union, Women's Union, and Farmer's Union ...

2.2. Implementing the model of intensive rice production adapted to waterlogging, and alum and seawater intrusion
? Establishing demonstration models of rice production in response to waterlogging and salinization with a total area of 147 ha/4 crops/2years. The total number of participating farmers: 764 people. Specifically:
+ Four demonstration models were developed during three crops from winter-spring crop of 2014-2015 to winter-spring of 2015-2016 (60ha, 5ha/ model/crop). The number of farmers involved: 162 people/20 ha/crop.
+ Four large sample rice fields (87 ha, 20 ga/field/crop) in the 2016 autumn crop.
? Although the weather in four production crops (from 2004 to 2016) was abnormal, unpredictable and detrimental to the rice production, however thanks to the application of adaptive technical measures and limit of negative impacts, the yield of the project model was 73.7 quintals/ha/crop, which is 5.2 quintals/ha/crop higher than the yield of non-project models with the more favorable conditions (average 69.5 quintals/ha/crop). The more unfavorable and complex weather conditions, the bigger yield variance of the project models than that of the non-project models with the same conditions.

2.3. The PVS
? The PVS method on the selection of rice varieties adapted to climate change (resilient to waterlogging, alum and seawater intrusion) has been transferred to the community. A production demonstration was conducted to evaluate the agronomic characteristics of six promising rice varieties resilient to alum and seawater intrusion: OM 4900, OM 7747, OM 8017 VN 121, DV 108 and DV 108 PT;
? The community has evaluated and selected rice varieties suitable with the local conditions and preference to maintain effective rice production in difficult conditions of the Dong dyke region. The rice variety 108 and reinvigorated 108 were chosen.

2.4. The development of the disaster recovery support fund
? A management board was established, regulations on management and operation of the Support Fund for Development of Rice Cultivation Adapted to Waterlogging and Alum and Seawater Intrusion were developed. This fund has been managed by the Phuoc Son commune?s Women's Union, and has operated since 2016.
? In 2016, the Fund came into operation and provided loans for women to buy materials for restoration of production after the flooding during the autumn crop of 2016. In May 2016, the Fund Management Board helped farmers preparing borrowing documents and the loan disbursement was made immediately.
? The number of households applying for loans: 33 households in Vinh Quang 1 hamlet, Phuoc Son commune, Tuy Phuoc district with an area of 42,243 m2 of the model of paddy field in response to submergence and alum and seawater intrusion for the project 2016 autum crop.
? Thanks to the loans, farmers have bought agriculture materials for production according to the technical procedure, increased productivity and profitability in the autumn crop of 2016. It is now the end of the first round (one year loan cycle). 100% of the capital has been withdrawn and paid into the account of Phuoc Son commune?s Women?s Union.

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