Lao People's Democratic RepublicWoman feeding chickens she raised with the technical and material support of a TeleFood Native Chicken Development Project designed to increase income and household food security. - - TeleFood Project...

Lao People's Democratic RepublicFish farm. Small farm fry production operation in net cages. Young girl catching common carp and Puntius fry in a scoop net. The fine net cages are constructed from mosquito netting. Simple fry produc...

Lao People's Democratic RepublicA scene of a model fish farm with integrated rice and fish culture that shows animal pens built over the water in order that ducks will fertilize the ponds. Low input and low investment in aquaculture...

Lao People's Democratic RepublicWoman selling fish. Fresh fish commands a premium price in the city and provincial markets. There is a huge demand nation-wide for both cultured and captured fish. During the dry season, cultured fish...

Lao People's Democratic RepublicModel integrated fish farm. Fish pond integrated with floating vegetables. The vegetables are consumed by the farm family and the surplus is sold at local markets. Rice cultivation is also practised a...

Lao People's Democratic RepublicA model of an integrated fish farm. Combination of fish ponds with ducks. The pen is built above the pond so that the water is fertilized directly with spilt feed and manure. - - LAO/97/007. This aqua...

Lao People's Democratic RepublicIntegrated rice-fish-poultry farm. Throwing a net into a pond to fish. This farm produces common carp, telapia as well as its own fry; it also has a small restaurant that adds value to the fish produc...

Lao People's Democratic RepublicFish farm. This farm was gradually converted from rice paddy to aquaculture over an eight-year period. Originally the farmer received training through a previous FAO aquaculture project. The ponds wer...

Lao People's Democratic RepublicIntegrated pest management training at a farmers' field school: collecting pests in the field. - - General: General. FAO's inter-country programme for integrated pest management (IPM) in vegetables in...

Lao People's Democratic RepublicModel fish farm. Fish fry production: cast-netting in a shallow fish pond. Fish fry are produced for common carp, Chinese carp, telapia and silver barb Lack of mechanization and high cost of pond cons...

Lao People's Democratic RepublicIntegrated pest management training at a farmers' field school: collecting pest specimens in the field. The specimens are then taken to the school and drawn by farmer groups. As illiteracy is high in...

Lao People's Democratic RepublicIntegrated pest management training at a farmers'field school: drawing the pests that have been collected after field study. This is done to ensure that the farmers are able to identify and memorize n...

Lao People's Democratic RepublicIntegrated pest management training at a farmers' field school: collecting pest specimens in the field. The specimens are then taken to the school and drawn by farmer groups. As illiteracy is high in...

Lao People's Democratic RepublicTransplanting rice. - - Development of an Integrated Post-production System: GCP/LAO/010/FRA. This TCP project tried to increase the quality and availability of food in Laos by studying ways to use fa...

Lao People's Democratic RepublicWoman taking rice from rice storage. - - Development of an Integrated Post-production System: GCP/LAO/010/FRA. This TCP project tried to increase the quality and availability of food in Laos by studyi...

Lao People's Democratic RepublicFarmer and his wife measuring fish before selling to market. - - Development of Fish Culture Extension: LAO/89/003. This project is intended to improve the availability of protein through aquaculture...

Lao People's Democratic RepublicHarvesting of young rice plants for transplanting - - Development of an Integrated Post-production System: GCP/LAO/010/FRA. This TCP project tried to increase the quality and availability of food in L...

Lao People's Democratic RepublicExample of cattle at a farm stable. - - TCP/LAO/4451: Increasing utlization of locally. The objective of this project in Laos is to introduce new livestock feeding and production technologies based o...

Lao People's Democratic RepublicUnited Nations volunteer (right, with white shirt) and two Lao officers visiting model fish farm. The shelter above water is for chicken farming; excrement will drop into the pond and will constitute...

Lao People's Democratic RepublicPreparation of rice field using mechanical ploughing. - - Development of an Integrated Post-production System: GCP/LAO/010/FRA. This TCP project tried to increase the quality and availability of food...

Lao People's Democratic RepublicThis extension officer is explaining to farmers the advantages of rice straw treatment for feeding cattle. - - Increasing Utilization of Locally Available Feed Resources: TCP/LAO/4451. The objective o...

Lao People's Democratic RepublicNetting fish that have been bred in fish pond. - - Development of Fish Culture Extension: LAO/89/003. This project is intended to improve the availability of protein through aquaculture in selected pr...

Lao People's Democratic RepublicWoman worker transplanting young rice seedlings. - - Development of an Integrated Post-production System: GCP/LAO/010/FRA. This TCP project tried to increase the quality and availability of food in La...

Lao People's Democratic RepublicPreparation of the mix for multinutrient blocks (urea, rice bran, salt, lime, bone-meal, cement). - - Increasing Utilization of Locally Available Feed Resources: TCP/LAO/4451. The objective of this pr...

Lao People's Democratic RepublicFarmer and his employee cleaning weeds from fish pond - - Development of Fish Culture Extension: LAO/89/003. This project is intended to improve the availability of protein through aquaculture in sele...

Lao People's Democratic RepublicPreparation of the mix for multinutrient blocks (urea, rice bran, salt, lime, bone-meal, cement). - - Increasing Utilization of Locally Available Feed Resources: TCP/LAO/4451. The objective of this TC...

Lao People's Democratic RepublicPreparation of rice straw to be treated with urea. - - Increasing Utilization of Locally Available Feed Resources: TCP/LAO/4451. The objective of this TCP project in Laos is to introduce new livesto...

Lao People's Democratic RepublicWoman holding a large common carp bred in fish pond. - - Development of Fish Culture Extension: LAO/89/003. This project is intended to improve the availability of protein through aquaculture in selec...

Lao People's Democratic RepublicPreparation of rice field. Ploughing with water buffalo. - - Development of an Integrated Post-production System: GCP/LAO/010/FRA. This TCP project tried to increase the quality and availability of fo...

Lao People's Democratic RepublicPreparation of solution for the urea treatment. - - Increasing Utilization of Locally Available Feed Resources: TCP/LAO/4451. The objective of this TCP project in Laos is to introduce new livestock fe...

Lao People's Democratic RepublicFishermen ply their trade at sunset in southern Laos on one of the many tributaries of the mighty Mekong River. The Mekong, one of Asia - -

MyanmarGirl worker watering crop on a jasmine farm. Jasmine production is a highly lucrative floriculture practiced by many farmers in the lower Burma area for sale in the markets of Rangoon. Flowers are a c...