Collaboration for Agriculture & Rural Development:Sustainable and profitable development of acacia plantations for sawlog production in Vietnam - Milestone 12 " pdf

Ministry of Agriculture & Rural Development





Collaboration for Agriculture & Rural Development

Milestone Report


Project VIE:032/05
Sustainable and profitable development of acacia
plantations for sawlog production in Vietnam



Milestone 12:



1. Extension Training Manual

2. Objective competency assessment of FSIV staff in deign,
implementation and management of germplasm and silviculture
techniques for sustainable sawlog production and application and
interpretation of acacia sawlog financial models

3. Competency assessment of trained extension workers in sawlog
growing technology package and establishment of on-farm

demonstration sites


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Introduction

This milestone report integrates material previously provided in reports on project
training courses with follow-up competency surveys carried out in the first quarter
of 2009.

1. Extension Training Manual
The Extension Training Manual is a set of Powerpoint slides that has previously
been provided in the reports on the Second and Third Extension training courses.
It is attached again with this report. These slides form a concise summary of the
technology package presented in the extension courses.

2. Objective competency assessment of FSIV staff in deign, implementation
and management of germplasm and silviculture techniques for sustainable
sawlog production and application and interpretation of acacia sawlog
financial models

Fourteen young scientific staff from FSIV and various provincial forest authorities
received training in a course held in HCM City and nearby field sites in June
2007. A detailed report on this course was provided to CARD Office in
September 2007. At the time of the course, trainees completed a simple
competency assessment before and after doing the course. This assessment
indicated marked improvement in understanding key course concepts. It was
included in the course report.

A follow-up competency survey was conducted in February 2009, 20 months after

the course. All the course attendees were interviewed by telephone by Ms Duong
Thanh Hoa of FSIV. The results of the telephone survey are summarised in Table
1 below.

The summary results indicate that:

• Participants had retained course materials and equipment provided
• All participants had kept an understanding of key course knowledge elements
• About 2/3 of participants had applied knowledge and skills learned in the
course in their professional work in plantation forestry.


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Table 1. Summary of follow-up competency assessment conducted in February
2009 for participants in technical training course, CARD Project 032/05 VIE at
Ho Chi Minh city in June 2007
Bảng tổng hợp kết quả đánh giá lớp học thuộc dự án CARD 032/05VIE
” tại TP Hồ Chí Minh (Tháng 6/2007)

Number of answers
/Số câu trả lời
No.
STT
Questions/câu hỏi
Yes
Có
No
Không
1
Does your current job involved working in

(Nghề nghiệp của bạn có liên quan đến:


Tree breeding
(Chọn tạo giống)
8

6

Seed and seedling supply
(Thu hái và cung cấp hạt)
9 5

Tree nursery operations
(Vườn ươm)
6 8

Plantation establishment and management
(Xây dựng và quản lý rừng trồng)
9 5

Other relevant employment
(Các công việc khác)


2
Have you kept the training materials provided during
the course
(Bạn có giữ tài liệu được cung cấp trong suốt khoá học
hay không?)

14 0
3
Have you referred to the training materials provided
during the course
(Bạn có tham khảo tài liệu được cung cấp trong suốt
khoá học hay không?)

14 0
4
Did you receive any equipment (pruning saws or
shears) when you attended the course
(Bạn có được nhận các dụng cụ (kéo cắt cành, cưa) khi
bạn tham gia vào khoá học không)

14 0
5
Have you used any equipment (pruning saws or shears)
since attending the course
(Bạn có sử dụng các dụng cụ (kéo cắt cành, cưa) từ khi
tham gia vào lớp học không)

14 0
6
Have you used knowledge learned at the course for:
(Bạn có sử dụng những kiến thức thu được từ khoá học
để:)

-
tree breeding operations

(các hoạt động chọn tạo giống)
8 6
-
choosing planting material for acacia plantations, or
advising other people
on choice of seed or other planting material (clones)
(lựa chọn vật liệu cho trồng rừng hoặc khuyên người
khác
lựa chọn hạt hoặc các vật liệu khác?)

7 7
-
nursery management and seedling production
(quản lý vườn ươm và thu hái hạt)

9 5

4
-
plantation establishment (site selection and preparation,
initial plantation spacing, choice of fertilizer
(thiết kế trồng rừng: chọn địa điểm, chuẩn bị, mật độ
ban đầu, phân bón)
9 5
-
singling young acacia plantations to produce single-
stemmed trees,
3-6 months after planting
(tỉa bỏ chỉ để lại một thân sau 3 – 6 tháng trồng)
9 5

-
form-pruning young acacia plantations to remove
competing leaders
and straighten lower stems, 9-12 months after planting
(tỉa bỏ những cây cạnh tranh, hình dáng thân xấu
sau 9 -12 tháng)
9 5
-
lift-pruning young acacia plantations to produce knot-
free clearwood
(tỉa cành để loại bỏ mắt chết)
9 5
-
thinning acacia plantations to enable faster diameter
growth of retained trees
(tỉa thưa rừng trồng để đường kính của những cây được
giữ lại sinh trưởng tốt?)
9 5
-
marketing acacia timber for sawlogs
(tiếp thị gỗ keo cho cung cấp gỗ xẻ?)

9 5

Numbers of participants: 14
Số người tham gia trả lời câu hỏi: 14


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3. Competency assessment of trained extension workers in sawlog growing

technology package and establishment of on-farm demonstration sites

Three training courses targeting extension workers were carried out as follows:

1. Thu Thinh Hue Province, March 2008
2. Quang Binh Province, July 2008
3. Hanoi Province, March 2009

As was done for the scientist training course, simple pre-and post-course competency
assessments were carried out at the time of the second and third courses. In both
courses examination of the results indicated that participants had substantially
improved their knowledge and skills relevant to the course subject area. These pre-
and post-course assessments for the second and third extension courses have been
included in the reports on each extension course, which have already been provided to
the CARD Office.

The first extension course targeted primarily technicians working for forest
enterprises in Thua Thien Hue and neighbouring provinces. A follow-up
competency assessment was done for the participants in this course in March 2009.
Those course attendees who could be located were interviewed by telephone by Ms
Duong Thanh Hoa of FSIV. A total of 13 of the 25 attendees were contacted for this
assessment. Summary results are shown in Table 2.

The summary results indicate that:

• Participants had retained course materials and equipment provided
• All participants had kept an understanding of key course knowledge elements
• Most of the participants had applied one or more areas of knowledge and
skills learned in the course in their professional work in plantation forestry
• The areas of acacia plantations treated with the recommended techniques are

relatively small (less than 4 ha in total). A larger area may have been treated
overall considering that 12 of the participants were not contacted.



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Table 2. Summary of follow-up competency assessment conducted in March
2009 for participants in first Project extension training course held in Thua
Thien Hue province (March 2008)

Answers

No.
STT
Questions/câu hỏi
Yes
Có
No
Không
Note
(ghi chú)
1
Does your current job involved working in
(Nghề nghiệp của bạn có liên quan đến:


Tree breeding
(Chọn tạo giống)
10 3

Seed and seedling supply
(Thu hái và cung cấp hạt)
7 6

Tree nursery operations
(Vườn ươm)
10 3

Plantation establishment and management
(Xây dựng và quản lý rừng trồng)
13 0

Other relevant employment
(Các công việc khác)

7 6
2
Have you kept the training materials provided during the
course
(Bạn có giữ tài liệu được cung cấp trong suốt khoá học hay
không?)

13 0
3
Have you referred to the training materials provided during the
course
(Bạn có tham khảo tài liệu được cung cấp trong suốt khoá học
hay không?)

13 0

4
Did you receive any equipment (pruning saws or shears) when
you attended the course
(Bạn có được nhận các dụng cụ (kéo cắt cành, cưa) khi bạn
tham gia vào khoá học không)

13 0
5
Have you used any equipment (pruning saws or shears) since
attending the course
(Bạn có sử dụng các dụng cụ (kéo cắt cành, cưa) từ khi tham
gia vào lớp học không)

13 0
6
Have you used knowledge learned at the course for:
(Bạn có sử dụng những kiến thức thu được từ khoá học để:)

-
tree breeding operations
(các hoạt động chọn tạo giống)
11 2
-
choosing planting material for acacia plantations, or advising
other people
on choice of seed or other planting material (clones) (lựa chọn
vật liệu cho trồng rừng hoặc khuyên người khác
lựa chọn hạt hoặc các vật liệu khác?)

13 0

-
nursery management and seedling production
(quản lý vườn ươm và thu hái hạt)

8 5
-
plantation establishment (site selection and preparation,
initial plantation spacing, choice of fertilizer
(thiết kế trồng rừng: chọn địa điểm, chuẩn bị, mật độ ban đầu,
phân bón)
12 1
-
singling young acacia plantations to produce single-stemmed
11 2

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trees,
3-6 months after planting
(tỉa bỏ chỉ để lại một thân sau 3 – 6 tháng trồng)
-
form-pruning young acacia plantations to remove competing
leaders
and straighten lower stems, 9-12 months after planting
(tỉa bỏ những cây cạnh tranh, hình dáng thân xấu sau 9
-12 tháng)
9

4
-
lift-pruning young acacia plantations to produce knot-free

clearwood
(tỉa cành để loại bỏ mắt chết)
11 2
-
thinning acacia plantations to enable faster diameter growth of
retained trees
(tỉa thưa rừng trồng để đường kính của những cây được giữ
lại sinh trưởng tốt?)
11 2
-
marketing acacia timber for sawlogs
(tiếp thị gỗ xẻ?)

0 13
7
How many hectares of acacia plantation have you
(Có bao nhiêu diện tích keo lai đã được bạn)

-
Singled
3.8 ha
-
Form pruned
3.7 ha
-
Lift pruned
3.8 ha
-
Thinned
3.9 ha