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APPENDIX F. Interview with Ma Veasna project coordinator of the<br />

ILFARM project.<br />

Held 18th of October 2008 at the CEDAC office in Prey Veng city, Prey Veng province, Cambodia.<br />

Marc Dumas-Johansen: How many <strong>SRI</strong> concepts do farmers follow in average and which ones?<br />

Ma Veasna: Farmers normally use big seedlings for transplanting, leveling of land, use more<br />

compost than in traditional fields, planting the rice plants in strait lines and do weeding. Most<br />

farmers carry out all these techniques. Good farmers do like this. Lazy farmers do not do so much.<br />

Marc Dumas-Johansen: What is the disadoption rate of <strong>SRI</strong> farmers? How many farmers will not<br />

practise <strong>SRI</strong> after some years?<br />

Ma Veasna: Most farmers stop with <strong>SRI</strong> after three to four years because they are used to working<br />

with traditional rice farming and then they mix the two concepts and stop with <strong>SRI</strong>. <strong>SRI</strong> also means<br />

more work for them, so they gradually go back to traditional rice farming.<br />

Marc Dumas-Johansen: What do farmers feed their animals?<br />

Ma Veasna: Grass and rice straw. They also eat tree leaves. This is mostly for cows.<br />

Marc Dumas-Johansen: How many <strong>SRI</strong> farmers are there in the in total in the project and how<br />

many in each commune?<br />

Ma Veasna: There are 160 farmers in the three target communes but the number is growing.<br />

Chourn Ampol commune has 25 <strong>SRI</strong> farmers and Kdoung Reay commune has 70-78 sri farmers.<br />

The most successful farmers are found in this commune. The total land of <strong>SRI</strong> is 8 ha in these two<br />

communes where farmers are medium and small farmers..<br />

Marc Dumas-Johansen: Where do farmers get their seeds from?<br />

Ma Veasna: They use their own seeds and save seeds from last year’s harvest. They keep the seed<br />

stocks from their parents. Some farmers buy seeds from outside.<br />

Marc Dumas-Johansen: What trees are used in the project and how many?<br />

Ma Veasna: 500.000 trees in total will be mobilized by the project. Multiple use trees and fruit trees<br />

will be used.<br />

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