Improving livelihoods in Vietnam through vegetable value chains

Key to the success of this project was the appointment of a local project coordinator Ms Shoon Lae by the project lead agency Applied Horticultural Research. Ms Lae became the main contact point for market engagement and promoting vegetable selling and production to local farmers. She established a rigorous pesticide monitoring program to ensure production of safe vegetables to MyanmarGAP standards, and through regular visits encouraged market linkages with Yangon.

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ACIAR PROJECT Improving livelihoods in Myanmar and Vietnam through vegetable value chains, AGB/2014/035 led by the commissioned organisation, Applied Horticultural Research.

People power forges new Myanmar supply chain

Myanmar farmer U Sar Saw Myint and his wife traditionally sell their ripe tomatoes and capsicums in local markets around the fertile shores of Inle Lake (Nyaung Shwe) but a new best-practice program has them aiming for distant city supermarkets.

In May 2020 the couple teamed up with another five farmers from Taung Boet Gyi village to pack 2,000 kg of ripe tomatoes into boxes and truck them 600 km to Yangon city, where they sold the produce for 34 cents/kg—triple the usual price at home.