Sustainable Rice Production and Its Impact on the Rice Value Chain: A Case Study of Rural Paddy Farm in Kedah

11th - 13th April, 2016

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Presenter : Siti Norezam OthmanCo researchers: Zakirah, Kamal Ab Hamid, Noorulsadiqin AzbiyaInstitution: Universiti Utara Malaysia

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Overview of the presentation

• Why sustainable rice farming and value chain?

• What motivates us to conduct the study?

• What do we expect to discover from the study?

• How do we conduct the study?

• What do we discover from the study?

• What conclusion can be made?

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Why Sustainable Rice Production and Rice Value Chain?

Sustainable rice production is cultivating paddy using organic inputs

Which lead to

Improvement of Paddy ecosystem

and people’s qualityof life

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Sustainable Rice Production using System of Rice Intensification Method

• 6 principles of SRI have innovative elements, where they focus on efficiency, economical, and sustainable environment

The method has proven to benefit farmers in terms of

1. Well managed resources such as less water requirement2. Using natural and organic fertilisers instead of chemical inputs3. High yield of production due to single seedling approach and

causing less competition to grow compared if using direct seedlings4. Controlling the pests not killing them5. Improving the paddy ecosystem from micro organisms that

improve the soil nutrients as well as the well being of the farmers such as health

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Why rice value chain?

• Value chain is a concept popularized by Porter to illustratehow companies could achieve what he called “competitiveadvantage” by adding value within their organization.

• Agriculture value chain concept is the approach of actorsconnected along a chain producing and delivering goods toconsumers through a sequence of activities

• The approach has been found useful because it considers allthose factors impacting on the ability of farmers to accessmarkets profitably and to identify market opportunities forsmall farmers

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What motivate us to conduct the study?

• Not many study done related to SRI organic rice

value chain

• Limited knowledge on factors impacting on the

ability of farmers to access markets

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What the study expect to discover?

• To what extent SRI Method impact the organic rice value

chain

• The roles and activities of the actors in the value chain at

initial stage

• The roles and activities of the actors in the value chain at

development stage

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How do we conduct the study?

• Adopt qualitative approach using case study method

• Acquire name of SRI farmers including their address from SRI Mas

• Select them based on predetermined criteria- 5 SRI paddy farming location

• Acquire their consent (case samples) for interview and observation

• Set up appointment and conduct interview at their premise

• Record/document their responses

• Transcribe the responses and validate

• Conduct thematic analysis

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What did we discover?

SRI practices Innovative elements

• Efficiency in using water resources

• Use not much seed but maximum output

• Growth of the young seedling is well taken care for survival

• Important for the paddy root growth and plant health

• Protect the paddy ecosystem

• Promoting environmental sustainability

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• Water requirement – aimed to moisten the soil.

• Seed selection – aimed at choosing fertile seed

• Planting seed singly in the tray and transplant the young seedlings to paddy field

• Controlling weed

• Controlling pest not killing them

• Using organic input

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Did the SRI practices affect the Value chain?

What did we discover? – Roles & activities of the actor

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What did we discover?- roles & activities of the actor

Actor

Input

Seed provider

(govt. agency –

initial stage),

farmer

Pre-production Production Post

production

Farmer

Marketing and

retailing

Cooperative,

Private

Individual

farmer

Activities Providing seed to farmer (initial stage –govtagency)

Self -propagated seeds by farmer

Labour input Land Machine and

equipment

Preparing Land & Water, Selecting fertile

seed,

Plant seeds in tray,

Transferring and planting single young

seedlings,

Weeding, Preparing organic fertilizer &

repellant,

harvesting, drying, storing and processing

Packaging,

marketing

and selling

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What did we discover during the development stage?

• Seeds – self propagated by the farmers

• Investment on expansion is necessary on

working capital, infrastructure and others

• Extension services from government agencies

are important

• Marketing competencies are significant to

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What did we discover?

The activities involved also other actors such as the government agencies however, the main actor in the value chain is the FARMER

The reasons are :

a) The volume of the paddy production not so highb)Field size for paddy farming is smallc) Not a mass production

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Conclusion

• The impact of SRI method on organic rice value chain is significant

• The roles and activities of the actors whether at initial or development stage are almost similar. Investment on working capital, infrastructure are critical whether at initial or development stages

• For organic rice value chain, the most important actor is the farmer

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THANK YOU

Q & A

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