Permaculture Protes Kampuchea (pt 2/4)

Second part of documentary following itinerant permaculture designer Rico Zook and local Khmer permaculturist Hoeuy Han on a journey across Cambodia.

On the flat farmlands of Svay Rieng province, Rico and Han join Japanese NGO International Volunteers of Yamagata (IVY) to teach local farmers about integrated pest management (IPM) at IVY's experimental farm.
Filmed across Cambodia between December 2010 and February 2011, this is permaculture education and regenerative design in action.

There is a multi-functional design element to this video : The film is presented here on PermaScience channel in 4 parts, with each part also serving as educational/promotional tool for the featured NGOs.
The full 31 minute version of Permaculture Protes Kampuchea can be seen on AstralJester's channel here : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKcQurZU3HY

You can find out more about the work of IVY, the NGO featured in this part, by visiting their website :
International Volunteer center of Yamagata : http://www.ivyivy.org/e/

For more information about the work of Rico Zook and Hoeuy Han, please visit Rico's website : http://www.ricoclime.com

For more information about the permaculture movement around the world please visit : http://www.permacultureplanet.com/

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Nonprofits & Activism

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• permaculture
• Cambodia
• Kampuchea
• Rico Zook
• Hoeuy Han
• NGO
• IVY
• Yamagata
• Japan
• Khmer
• Svay Rieng
• farming
• farmer
• farm
• experimental
• agriculture
• gardening
• garden
• IPM
• soil
• soap
• spray
• natural
• pesticide
• pests
• insects
• design
• integrated pest management
• 2011
• neem
• education
• training

[solidwebcode]

What I don't get is that Rico obviously knows that these sprays and pest traps are not the solution itself - but he still focuses most of the movie/teaching on that. Why isn't he mulching with these guys? Or going to the forest and getting herb plants to add to the garden for extra pest management? It seems to me these people need to learn by doing (as do most people) and by doing something that you actually don't want them to do in the end - you're not really teaching them that which you want.

[adammz08]

ok, no worries, thanks for answering, it just struck me that the trees were not mulched up ,,,, apart from soil moisture at surface,,, high mulching in such a canal area will begin to support so many bacterias / microbes to give a good result,,, we mound up on such areas in tropics,,,, like a temperate climate garden to give the roots a bit of air. ok,,,thanks ,,best of luck

is it chimpama type country?

[leronb1]

@adammz08 You see how high the water table is? This is marshland, you probably wouldn't want to retain too much moisture at the soil surface. These people seem to know the specific conditions of this region far better than either of us. I would suggest the planting of a lot of nitrogen fixing ground cover plants in the areas around the fruit trees, they can cut and drop the top growth any time they want a nitrogen release from the resulting root die back.

[svayrieng2008]

@adammz08 The trees were later mulched. This was his first time to work on this farm. Bananas were planted to hold soil to keep the edge when we made canal. That's why they are in rows.

[adammz08]

why are the trees not mulched?  the mango tree the guys are spraying,,,, why are bananas in rows and not clumped togeather

[gaiagale]

forgive me for typing this ...I noticed that the instructor is speaking a bit stilted ...I know its often done when speaking to an audience of individuals who speak another language but can be eliminated if one is aware

thanks for sharing