1. This article is from ECHO Asia Note #3 Rugged northeastern Myanmar is home to the Lahu, Shan, Akha, Palaung and various other ethnic groups. With few paved roads and only a small percentage of the Shan State's population connected to the electrical grid, infrastructure serving the locals is still...
  2. 01-07-2009 This article is from ECHO Asia Note #2 In a 2001 ECHO Development Notes article, “SRI, the System of Rice Intensification: Less can be more,” ECHO first reported on SRI’s radical rice production steps including: Transplanting rice seedlings when the first two leaves have emerged, usually sometime...
  3. 01-07-2010 This article is from ECHO Asia Note #6 The arrival of a new crop No one seems to know whymembers of the Lisuhilltribe in northernThailand refer to a certain field crop with brilliantyellow flowers as Japanesesesame. The seeds of thiscrop yield quality cooking oil, but the plant looksnothing like...
  4. 01-09-2015 This article is from ECHO Asia Note #26 “Năm nay nước trong đập Pa Sak Jolasid xuống thấp đến mức bạn có thể nhìn thấy những tàn tích của ngôi đền, cây cối, những tòa nhà cũ, tất cả chúng. Đó là một cuộc khủng hoảng nước trầm trọng, nhưng nếu nó kéo dài nửa tháng nữa mà không có mưa, cuộc khủng...
  5. This article is from ECHO Asia Note #30 The word permaculture is mentioned with increasing frequency in speeches, books and magazine articles on sustainability and food security. What is permaculture? Is it a movement? A philosophy? Simply a set of design tools? In this article, I answer the...
  6. This article is from ECHO Asia Note #30 Editor’s Note: Peter is a freelance consultant based in Chiang Mai, Thailand, with a M.Sc. in Agriculture from Leipzig, Germany. Peter is a former researcher in “The Uplands Program,” a collaborative research program between Hohenheim University (Germany),...
  7. This article is from ECHO Asia Note #29 The old adage ‘You can’t fix a problem if you don’t know you have one’ underpins the basic science of diagnosing plant nutrient deficiencies. For years, farmers and scientists have worked together to identify a set of visual clues that can be used to...
  8. This article is from ECHO Asia Note #28 Farm-generated fertility contributes to a more sustainable agricultural system. Crop residues and manures are part of the nutrient cycle for plant production and can lower input costs through the use of thermophilic composting, vermiculture, bokashi...
  9. This article is from ECHO Asia Note #28 For both farmers and researchers in the tropics, seed saving can be very frustrating. In Mondulkiri province, farmers are rarely able to keep seed for more than the six months between harvest and the new planting season. Seeds stored longer than this tend...
  10. This article is from ECHO Asia Note #27 Lời Dẫn Từ tháng Chín đến tháng Mười Một 2014 và lặp lại vào tháng Bảy và tháng Tám 2015, ECHO Châu Á đã thực hiện kiểm tra thuốc diệt cỏ thay thế bằng thảo mộc sử dụng nguyên liệu sẵn có tại địa phương tại Ngân Hàng Hạt Giống ECHO Châu Á, tại Mae Ai, Thái...