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2nd Workshop on Climate Change
Date : 2024-03-18
Venue : OTOP Exhibition and Phyaram Sericulture Learning Centre Piaram, Muang Surin, Surin Province
Agenda
Climate Change Adaptation Planning and Technologies 2
Our target group are women villagers in Phyaram, a traditional mulberry silk cultivating communi ty in Surin. They have been affected by flood and drought. Recentl y, they are forced to live by with zero income. The proposed business model will use local wisdom to maintain the quality of silk floss residues fertilizer, and to introduce weather forecast technologies and the concept of women’s roles in climate change adaptation activities, to assist them to become smart farmers. The women’s roles, in particular, will be promoted, as they play the main part in raising the children, sustaining the families, and keeping the traditions.
Once the participants were familiarized with basic information on climate change, its impact, and how to mitigate the impacts. The project manager, the Director of Surin Sericulture Centre, and the showed examples of farming innovations from around the world to the participants, so that they can relate to innovations which are likely to be useful and practical for them.
