Report- ASSET Flagship Exchange – Field Visit to Vietnam (22 – 26 April 2025)
Last month a delegation of nineteen Cambodian stakeholders—drawn from farmer cooperatives, local authorities, processors, NGOs and the Cashew Nut Association of Cambodia (CAC)—travelled to Bình Phước and Bình Dương, the heart of Vietnam’s cashew industry, for a three-day learning mission organised under the Agro-ecology and Safe food System Transitions (ASSET) project. The visit was designed to deepen our understanding of agro-ecological crop-protection, intercrop systems, modern processing technologies and the research architecture that underpins Vietnam’s impressive productivity gains. What follows is a narrative account of the journey, the insights we gathered and a short set of recommendations for CAC’s leadership.
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