... households in the Lower MekongBasin are involved in fisheries, both fortheir own consumption and for sale. Women and children arevery active inthe fishery, in both catching and processing/marketing. ... considerablystrengthen the arguments for sustaining aquatic biodiversity in the Mekong. 1 BIODIVERSITY ANDFISHERIESINTHEMEKONG RIVER BASIN Mekong Development Series No. 2May 2003 Published in Phnom ... promoting sustainablemanagement of fisheries, including attention tobiodiversity needs. In addition to the 1995 Agreement onSustainable Development of theMekong River Basin, these instruments include...
... Impacts of Introductions and Stocking of Exotic Species intheMekongBasinand Policies for Their Controlxiii The Impacts of Introductions and Stocking of Exotic Species intheMekongBasinand Policies ... Introductions and Stocking of Exotic Species intheMekongBasinand Policies for Their Controlx The Impacts of Introductions and Stocking of Exotic Species intheMekongBasinand Policies for Their ... Species intheMekongBasinand Policies for Their Controlix The Impacts of Introductions and Stocking of Exotic Species intheMekongBasinand Policies for Their Control4.2.4 Biology The Mekong...
... for the groups to make it through the winter eachyear.26 The Inuits of the Arctic moved inland at the end of spring tohunt caribou or fish inthe lakes and moved back to the coast at the beginning ... capelin in the Barents Sea collapsed inthe mid-1980s, resulting inthe closing of the capelin fishery for five years.Iceland’s cod catch fell by about half in 1994. The cod fisherythere has since ... ex-pansion of industrial fisheries. Hence catches, corresponding to the interest obtained from the savings, have continually dwindled. Weare now depleting the principal. In the process, the productive...
... floodwater, causing overland flows along the banks and interior fields. Flood basins are low-lying areas and received these sedimentary materials. The flood basins of theMekong River system ... changes in qt, fs, and u2 showed interbedded, faint laminae and discontinuous parallel laminae. These are all features of the marsh facies. 4.3.1.3. Estuarine marine sand and sandy silt ... coarsening-upward succession began in the pro-delta and was gradually created. The pro-delta contained very fine and fine sand laminae. The pro-delta is 3.5 m thick inthe MR1 core. In comparison...
... the fishpond aquaculture industry can continue to support income diversification intheMekong Delta, while complying with the water quality discharge standards outlined in Vietnamese law and ... which could be complex and require extensive sampling points, repeated often over time, but rather the levels in drains discharging into the main canals. Field experiment on the use of solid fishpond ... severe during the dry season when flushing and mixing of discharge water is least, andinthe smaller canals especially where their flow is blocked by aquatic plants and by barriers. The Mekong...
... suffuse the industry and highlight the implicit and explicit roles of farmer associations in accessing and sharing information (and therefore likely role in BMP adoption and implementation going ... 2009). In summary these include: ã Addressing key market issues: ensuring small scale producers have a stronger standing inthe industry as well as helping producers meet increasingly stringent ... multiple business enterprises, including acting as a market chain middleman, and has a fish feeding business. These examples highlight not only the complexity and diversity of farmers inthe industry...
... rice and to investigate the effect of tempering on the increase inthe mechanical strength of rice. This was the preliminary work mainly to establish the methodology and feasibility of the research. ... plants in each province (Kien Giang and Tien Giang). Since the work is being continued, the full report will be presented next year. The available data will also be incorporated into the training ... post-harvest institutions to highlight the project objectives and also to obtain input from the extension workers on grain losses in relation to harvesting, drying and milling practices in Mekong...
... participated inthe training session. The harvesting and drying demonstrations and results obtained inthe previous research were presented during these sessions. Dr Vinh Truong, Mr. Tran van Khanh, and ... were the training instructors. Figure 7: Full of the participants inthe meeting hall at the training lesson in 25th February 2007 i. Study the performance of milling plants and ... cooperatives on the benefit of mechanical drying against sun drying andthe economic value of the correct harvesting time and method. The demonstration and training activity for the farmers were...
... training program in July-2007 At Kien Giang Province Project: INVESTIGATION OF RICE KERNEL CRACKING AND ITS CONTROL INTHE FIELD AND DURING POST-HARVEST PROCESSES INTHEMEKONG DELTA OF ... At Kien Giang Province Projet: INVESTIGATION OF RICE KERNEL CRACKING AND ITS CONTROL INTHE FIELD AND DURING POST-HARVEST PROCESSES INTHEMEKONG DELTA OF VIETNAM Figure ... 8:10: Declaration the reason of training program – Introduction the delegates, participants 8:10 – 8:15: Introduction the content of the training program (Dr. Vinh Truong) 8:15 – 8:20: Statement...
... post-harvest drying conditions and inappropriate milling operations. The weather pattern (temperature and humidity) inMekong River Delta is unique. The rice is grown and harvested in both wet and dry ... frequency of rain. During the rainy season, the rice grain can develop cracks during the late maturity stage due to rewetting. At the same time, during dry season it is likely that the grains over-dry ... and cleaning in which most bulk straw, chaff, immature grain, and very light and fine impurities were separated from the grains. The straw and chaff were manually separated and the grain was...
... Vinh Thanh district 8:00 – 8:10: Declaration the reason of training program – Introduction the delegates, participants 8:10 – 8:15: Introduction the content of the training program (Dr. Vinh ... CRACKING AND ITS CONTROL INTHE FIELD AND DURING POST-HARVEST PROCESSES INTHEMEKONG DELTA OF VIETNAM Figure 1: Opening by Dr. Truong Vinh, ... on training program on 22-23 Sept-2007 At Can Tho Province (Phong Dien & Co Do districts) Project: INVESTIGATION OF RICE KERNEL CRACKING AND ITS CONTROL INTHE FIELD AND DURING POST-HARVEST...
... mixing of the grain involved, the grains close to the air entry point will dry faster than the interior. Some cracking of grain may occur at the entry point if the temperature is a bit high and ... dependent on the weather condition andthe stage of harvesting. There are losses due to shattering of the grain and rice cracking due to over drying or rewetting of the grain, if the rice is ... region and include different methods for harvesting, hauling, threshing and cleaning. The goal of good harvesting is to ensure maximum grain yield through minimizing grain loss andthe prevention...
... The rainy season inthe region occurs from May to October, the remaining months are dry season and there is not four seasons such as the Spring, Summer, Winter like in Northern Provinces. The ... cracking during milling. This explains why dryers installed since 2003 have been more and more of the reversible principle. ã However the effect of air reversal on the drying time or the drying ... with other buffer trays in- between. In each block of experiment, the dependent variables were: the drying rate (shown by the drying curve), the uniformity of the final MC (shown by the MC of the...
... Figure 3: the husking machine andthe classifying machine (paddy - brown rice) Figure 4: the whitener andthe polisher 127 Operating principle of RS10P-Sinco milling system. At ... inappropriate practices during harvesting, reaping, threshing, sun/mechanical drying, loading/unloading, transporting, milling processing and storage conditions. Milling processing is an important ... operated as in whole system conditions, but as single machine during training process; 130 Figure 5: the bran return system andthe classifying machine (tri-e) 3.6 Determination of head...