Potentials and challenges of Conservation Agriculture in the western upland areas of Cambodia. A case study in RattanakMundol, Battambang Province

Abstract

This poster presents efforts to introduce direct seeding mulch-based cropping systems (DMC) to smallholder subsistence farmers in Rattanak Mundol, Cambodia. It compares corn yields under DMC and conventional practices and identifies potentials and challenges for adoption and scaling up.

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Keywords

Conservation agriculture, Adoption of innovations, Cambodia, Direct seeding mulch-based cropping systems (dmc), Field Scale

Citation

Presented at the 2014 Sustainable Agriculture and Natural Resource Management (SANREM) Innovation Lab Annual Meeting, Arlington, VA, 19-21 May, 2014