{"id":12572,"date":"2019-05-31T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-05-31T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/phakhaolao.la\/news\/khammuan-reaps-benefits-of-model-agricultural-villages\/"},"modified":"2019-05-31T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-05-31T00:00:00","slug":"khammuan-reaps-benefits-of-model-agricultural-villages","status":"publish","type":"news-post","link":"https:\/\/phakhaolao.la\/en\/news\/khammuan-reaps-benefits-of-model-agricultural-villages\/","title":{"rendered":"Khammuan reaps benefits of model agricultural villages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Model agricultural villages are those which have shown exceptional diligence in following the government\u2019s recommendations on what crops to grow. They are marked by farming communities that have an excellent working knowledge of the land and who have shown strong commitment to growing the best quality crops.\u00a0 The products grown in model agricultural villages must assist the local community in some way. Officials said Khammuan now has 10 model agricultural villages and that plans are underway for the designation of more in the near future.\u00a0\u00a0<br \/>\nAn official from the province\u2019s Agriculture and Forestry Department said the department sees great potential in agriculture and believes it will be the main driving force behind Khammuan\u2019s future economic growth and development.\u00a0Khammuan currently has a lot of unused land which provincial authorities believe could be well suited to the cultivation of a wide variety of crops.\u00a0 The more food that is produced for export will mean more wealth for the people of Khammuan, the official said.<br \/>\nProvincial authorities encourage farmers to grow a variety of commercial crops.\u00a0This lessens the likelihood of oversupply of one product.\u00a0 It also means local families have access to a wider variety of fresh fruit and vegetables than they otherwise might have had, at cheaper prices.\u00a0\u00a0<br \/>\nThe province expects its rice harvest to reach around 406,940 tonnes this year. The 84,603 hectares of rice under cultivation this rainy season could produce 329,950 tonnes. The 13,650 hectares of dry season rice fields are expected to produce 76,990 tonnes.\u00a0Provincial authorities said Khammuan\u2019s farmers will grow sugarcane, tobacco, corn and sweet potato this wet season, among many other foods.\u00a0The Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry expects to meet its agriculture development strategy targets of 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","format":"standard","news-type":[131],"class_list":["post-12572","news-post","type-news-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","news-type-news"],"acf":{"pkl_story_headline":"Efficient farming practices in Khammuan province have seen many communities designated as \u2018model agricultural villages\u2019 because they have driven up the production of agricultural goods and increased the amount of produce sold to neighbouring provinces and regions. The province\u2019s agriculture officials said the establishment of model agricultural villages falls in line with Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry (MAF) policy which seeks to stabilise the nation\u2019s food security and increase agricultural exports to other countries.","pkl_story_authors":"","pkl_story_image":10160,"pkl_story_video":"","pkl_story_image_credits":"photo source from Vientiane times","pkl_story_file":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/phakhaolao.la\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-post\/12572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/phakhaolao.la\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-post"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/phakhaolao.la\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news-post"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/phakhaolao.la\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phakhaolao.la\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=12572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}