ASEAN Good Agricultural Practices (ASEAN GAP)

Seminar on the Implementation of ASEAN Good Agricultural Practices 27 – 29 May 2015, Kuala Lumpur

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ASEAN Community Building •  ASEAN Community by 2015

Roadmap for an ASEAN Community (2009-2015) ü  ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) Blueprint ü ASEAN Political and Security Community Blueprint ü ASEAN Socio-Cultural Community Blueprint ü Initiative for ASEAN Integration (IAI) Workplan II

ASEAN Economic Community (AEC)

– A single market and production base – with free flow of: •  Goods, Services, Investment, capital and skilled labour

– A highly competitive economic region, – A region of equitable economic development, and – A region fully integrated into the global

ASEAN Economic Community (AEC)

A7. Food, Agriculture and Forestry • 38. Enhance intra- and extra-ASEAN trade and long-term competitiveness of ASEAN’s food, agriculture and forestry products/commodities.

• 39. Promote cooperation, joint approaches and technology transfer among ASEAN Member Countries and international, regional organisations and private sector. • 40. Promote ASEAN agricultural cooperatives as a means to empower and enhance market access of agricultural products, to build a network mechanism linking agricultural cooperatives, and to fulfil the purpose of agricultural cooperatives for the benefit of farmers in the region.

GAPs in ASEAN region

Q GAP

Malaysian Good Agricultural Practices

IndoGAP

Singapore GAP-VF

ASEAN GAP

Viet GAP

GAP QV

PhilGAP

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ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) •  Food, Agriculture and Forestry

–  Enhance intra- and extra-ASEAN trade and long-term competitiveness of ASEAN’s food, agriculture and forestry products/commodities.

•  Harmonise the safety and quality standards for horticultural produce and agricultural products of economic importance in the ASEAN region by 2015.

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ASEAN GAP - FV

Recently endorsed ASEAN agricultural best practices (2014): • The ASEAN Guidelines for Good Aquaculture Practices on Food Fish – ASEAN GAqP

• The ASEAN Good Animal Husbandry Practices - ASEAN GAHP

• The ASEAN Standard for Organic Agriculture - ASOA

ON-GOING ACTIVITIES RELATED TO GAP IN AMSs

•  Establishment of national GAP (C,L M)

- Government legislation/ regulation related to GAPs - Establishment of TWG to manage GAP programme - Establishment of an inspection body - developed national branding and logo for national GAP. - Training for stakeholders : inspectors and farmers on GAP - Public awareness on GAP (TV, Poster, Field Day etc)

•  Promotion and implementation of national GAP programmes in AMSs (ASEAN-7)

- Alignment of national GAPs with ASEAN GAP (B, I,M, P, S, - Public awareness (television, pamphlet, exhibition, cooking class etc) - Capacity building/ Training for GAP for stakeholder (government

officers, growers/ farmers/ champion, fruits supplier, exporters) - Pilot farms and Certification of farms - Establishment of a Good Agricultural Practices (GAP) Teams

(RGTs) to provide direct assistance to farmers in understanding contents of the GAP and implementing it at the farm level.

Way forward

•  Certification and Accreditation Mechanism to implement ASEAN agricultural best practices.

•  Private sector engagement, buy-in/adoption

•  Mobilisation of resources, cooperation and partnership arrangement to support ASEAN agricultural best practices

Thank you