Agriculture Reference
In-Depth Information
Website
Website available since November 2002: www.vegsys.nl. In the table below the
total number of hits till date are presented and from which continent people looked
at the VEGSYS website
1.
Europe
2339
64.6 %
2.
Asia
927
25.6 %
3.
North America
157
4.3 %
4.
Africa
41
1.1 %
5.
Latin America
37
1.0 %
6.
Australia
33
0.9 %
7.
Central America
5
0.1 %
Unknown
81
2.2 %
Total
3620
100.0 %
3) Have your results been used, and if yes by whom, where and how?
•
As the technologies where developed with farmers the chance of uptake is large.
It would probably be the best to have a monitoring and evaluation study to see
how many farmers are now using the newly developed technologies.
•
Our farm recording, monitoring and feedback system was an important reason
for the Dutch company to work with the VEGSYS farmers. Input record keeping
is an important requirement for international markets.
•
The insight we provided into how farmers manage pest and diseases and why, is
important information which is used to design the pesticide safe use programme
for Syngenta.
•
The insight in marketing and working with farmers formed the basis for the
development of a domestic supply chain with a large international supermarket
chain in 2006.
4) What has been the benefit or impact (indicate evidence of impact, e.g., page hit
count)?
•
The full analysis of the field trials will be available by the end of the year. But
especially the new eggplant cultivation technology in China will have a large
positive financial impact on the smallholders and will lead to much lower pollu-
tion levels.
•
Farmers who are now supplying the export company achieve higher income
levels and because indigenous herbs are exported no pesticides are needed in
production. So farmers are switching from vegetables with high pesticide con-
sumption to indigenous herbs for which zero or only little amounts of pesticides
are needed.
F) Lessons learned
What lessons have you learned from science, policy-oriented and capacity building
activities that could improve:
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