ECHO's Mission is to equip people with resources and skills to reduce hunger and improve the lives of the poor.

ECHO's Vision is to honor God through sustainable hunger solutions.

2012 ECHO Cambodia Tropical Agriculture Workshop

February 21-23, 2012

8:00 AM - 5:00 PM 

The ECHO Asia Impact Center and the Wholistic Development Organization will co-host a three-day Khmai-language workshop to be held at the Peri-Urban Agriculture Center (PUAC) and Jumpah Center on the outskirts of Phnom Penh in Kompong Speu Province.  Over several sessions, the ECHO Cambodia Tropical Agriculture Workshop will offer participants a chance to:

• Network with other agriculture and community development workers.
• Tour the Peri-Urban Agriculture Center and learn about organic vegetable production, post-harvest management and marketing.
• Engage in a water storage and irrigation workshop 
• Tour the Jumpah Center that features work related to solar power, pig production with forage feeds and recycling of pig waste into fertilizer and biogas.
• With local materials, learn how to produce and use indigenous micro-organisms for various types of farm application.
• Learn how to produce low-cost nutritious fermented pig feed and bokashi natural fertilizer.
• Become familiar with various green manure/cover crops for farm soil improvement.
• Seed Swap: participants are encouraged to bring small quantities of seeds of few local crops (field, garden, etc.) to exchange with other particpants as well as ECHO.
  

Workshop Costs

• $100 per person, includes:
• three days of training, including morning and afternoon sessions
• lunch
• transportation between the Peri-Urban Agriculture Center and the Jumpah Center on the 23^rd

• $75 per person for organizations that register 5 or more staff members

• Or $25 per person per half day of participation
  
  

Note: If the event is overbooked, preference will be given to those interested in attending the entire workshop.

Workshop participants will be responsible for their own local lodging and non-workshop related meals and transportation. 

Workshop Registration
To inquire and register for the Tropical Agriculture Workshop, Khmer language enquiries may contact the Wholistic Development Organization at wdo.director@gmail.com.  English inquires can contact the ECHO Asia Impact Center at echoasia@echonet.org.

Registration deadline:  January 1, 2012

Resource organizations

• ECHO Asia Impact Center
• Wholistic Development Organization
• Peri-Urban Agriculture Center
• International Development Enterprises Cambodia
• Jumpah
• Cambodia Global Action
  

Workshop Sessions