(HBO) – The Hoa Binh Farmers’ Association has launched the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO)-supported Forest and Farm Facility (FFF) programme in the second phase.

The FFF programme gives training and technical guidance on organic grapefruit farming to 35 farmer households in three communes in the project site.

Hoa Binh is one of the four northern mountainous provinces to be covered by the programme in the 2019-2022 period. It aims to turn forest and farm producer organisations (FFPO), comprising of women and youngsters from ethnic minority groups, into factors promoting changes to climate change resilience and the improvement for locals’ livelihood.Total aid for the programme in the third phase is 240,000 USD. 

The provincial Farmers’ Association has made surveys and chosen three communes in two districts to implement the programme – An Binh commune in Lac Thuy district, and Dong Lai and Tu Ne commune in Tan Lac district.

Currently, the benefited communes have formed a key cooperative groups and cooperation groups, while organising meetings at communal level to introduce and discuss new laws, decrees and circulars to the local community. They have also held training courses to give guidelines on a number of issues related to forest and farm production./.


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