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This paper is based on a lesson withdrawn from experience of four small farmer households in moun... more This paper is based on a lesson withdrawn from experience of four small farmer households in mountainous area in the west of Thailand, who have converted to organic agriculture. It focuses three dimensions of sustainability of agricultural systems: agro-ecological performance, economic viability, and social benefits.
Fruit trees and the fruits they produce are important source of live of people in Thailand as wel... more Fruit trees and the fruits they produce are important source of live of people in Thailand as well as in other Southeast Asian countries. Geographical and human cultural factors create large diversity of tropical fruits to the country. Over the past few decades, the country has been experiencing erosion of tropical fruit genetic resources due to several factors especially lose of habitats through urbanization of traditional orchards and deforestation.
The paper is withdrawn from an experience of AGRECO/PGRC that initiates to survey and rescue genetic resource of tropical fruits of Thailand. Four species targeted for collection were Artocarpus heterophyllus, Citrus maxima, Baccaurea ramiflora, and Manilkara achras. Quantitatively, the mission has collected the total 68 accessions (samples) which are comprised of 1,343 trees of the targeted 4 species as well as other 10 tropical fruit species.
Thirty (30) farmers are invited to take part in the process. Agroforest farms have been developed simultaneously in 30 farms in order to accommodate the genetic materials collected. Descriptor lists have been simplified from IPGRI’s descriptors for documentation of the germplasms by cooperating farmers. Farmers play an important role in conservation as the “living genebank” by which they not only help conserve the tropical fruit germplasms on their agroforest farms and prevent them from extinction , but they can also make use of the genetic resources either for direct consumption or cash generated from produces; and disseminate them to other farmers who need.
This paper is based on a lesson withdrawn from experience of four small farmer households in moun... more This paper is based on a lesson withdrawn from experience of four small farmer households in mountainous area in the west of Thailand, who have converted to organic agriculture. It focuses three dimensions of sustainability of agricultural systems: agro-ecological performance, economic viability, and social benefits.
Fruit trees and the fruits they produce are important source of live of people in Thailand as wel... more Fruit trees and the fruits they produce are important source of live of people in Thailand as well as in other Southeast Asian countries. Geographical and human cultural factors create large diversity of tropical fruits to the country. Over the past few decades, the country has been experiencing erosion of tropical fruit genetic resources due to several factors especially lose of habitats through urbanization of traditional orchards and deforestation.
The paper is withdrawn from an experience of AGRECO/PGRC that initiates to survey and rescue genetic resource of tropical fruits of Thailand. Four species targeted for collection were Artocarpus heterophyllus, Citrus maxima, Baccaurea ramiflora, and Manilkara achras. Quantitatively, the mission has collected the total 68 accessions (samples) which are comprised of 1,343 trees of the targeted 4 species as well as other 10 tropical fruit species.
Thirty (30) farmers are invited to take part in the process. Agroforest farms have been developed simultaneously in 30 farms in order to accommodate the genetic materials collected. Descriptor lists have been simplified from IPGRI’s descriptors for documentation of the germplasms by cooperating farmers. Farmers play an important role in conservation as the “living genebank” by which they not only help conserve the tropical fruit germplasms on their agroforest farms and prevent them from extinction , but they can also make use of the genetic resources either for direct consumption or cash generated from produces; and disseminate them to other farmers who need.