Overview
This project aimed to improve soil management in selected high-country farming systems of southwest and southeast Cambodia, increasing yields and returns for diverse crop options. The project focused on characterising soil resources, identifying soil constraints to crop production, and developing integrated site-specific soil management to boost profitability and prevent land degradation.
Some outcomes of the project included:
- Introducing new methods for soil and land suitability assessment.
- Establishing a Cambodian Soils Practitioners Stakeholder Group for coordination and knowledge sharing.
- Developing a geographic framework of Cambodia for understanding soil distribution in a landscape context.
- Introducing tools and information that assist stakeholders in identifying the main soil types and their constraints to crop production.
- Engaging with farmer groups to better understand farmer knowledge and perspectives of soil and soils constraints to crop production in upland regions.
These achievements laid the groundwork for further research and extension activities related to soil and crop management, soil information availability, stakeholder group knowledge and capacity, and monitoring and managing soil and land degradation.
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