{"id":5409,"date":"2020-07-27T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-27T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/phakhaolao.la\/story\/ntfp-facts\/"},"modified":"2024-10-22T22:33:48","modified_gmt":"2024-10-22T22:33:48","slug":"ntfp-facts","status":"publish","type":"story","link":"https:\/\/phakhaolao.la\/en\/story\/ntfp-facts\/","title":{"rendered":"Facts about NTFPs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TABI&#8217;s Special focus NTFPs have told about\u00a0NTFP Facts that<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p>The main benefit of biodiversity for rural population of Lao PDR is related to the use of forest products<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>757 plants and 150 animals have been identified as NTFPs, but the real figure is probably 4 or 5 times higher<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>The biodiversity of NTFPs is an essential part of rural food security, by direct consumption, as well as by selling in times of rice shortage<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>In the uplands NTFPs provide up to 50% of cash income of rural villages<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>NTFPs contributes to roughly US$ 6-7 million per year or 2% of total export volume of Lao PDR<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Cardamom [Amomum sp.] and malva nuts [Scaphium macropodum] both used in Chinese medicine, are the most important export product, together representing 60-70% of the total NTFPs export value for Lao PDR<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>The main NTFPs export destinations are china, Thailand, and Vietnam<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>The local and macroeconomic values of NTFPs provide strong economic incentives for biodiversity management and conservation <\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>The fast change from subsistence farming to marketing economic, with a rapid expansion of mono-culture plantation and the resulting transformation of the small-scale agriculture landscapes, lead to an increase pressure on the still rice NTFP resources and biodiversity<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Conclusion<\/p>\n<p>NTFPs are uniquely essential for food security and local as well as national economy. They are a key element in poverty alleviation, forest and biodiversity conservation <\/p>\n<p>Source: TABI Update 2011<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","format":"standard","story-type":[122,116,118],"class_list":["post-5409","story","type-story","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","story-type-enterprise","story-type-farming","story-type-sustainability"],"acf":{"pkl_story_headline":"NTFP Facts","pkl_story_authors":"Andy Souvanhphukdee","pkl_story_image":5414,"pkl_story_video":"","pkl_story_image_credits":"phakhaolao.la","pkl_story_file":null,"pkl_story_story_types":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/phakhaolao.la\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/story\/5409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/phakhaolao.la\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/story"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/phakhaolao.la\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/story"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/phakhaolao.la\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"story-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phakhaolao.la\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/story-type?post=5409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}