Working with Ethnic Group: A Case Study of Introducing Pig Fattening to Garay Ethnicity in Ouyadav District, Ratanakiri Province
2015 年 6 巻 2 号 p. 29-34
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2015 年 6 巻 2 号 p. 29-34
Ratanakiri is remotely located in northeast of Cambodia about 600 km from Phnom Penh. Pig production of Garay ethnicity was challenged with poor feeding and high risk of mortality. The study aimed to compare the effect of feed supplement, estimate the economic efficiency, and study the adoption of target group to the demonstrated experiment pig fattening. A group discussion was launched to select 5 volunteer farmers from each village who met the criteria. The chosen farmers were trained on pig fattening process. Each of them had been subsidized two piglets; hand in hand pen construction, and feed supplements for 4 months. Some information was informally interviewed to understand the current feeding and management; and determine the suitable interventions. Farmers were then randomly allocated into two treatments, viz. T0 (Control group – free range feeding) and T1 (Supplement group – 40% concentrates, 30% rice bran, 30% cassava chip).The growth rate was recorded every 2 weeks for 4 months. After a 7-month period, all adopted farmers were interviewed by using questionnaire for impact study. The results have shown significant 3-fold improvement in daily average weight gain of improved diet group although the economic efficiency of the two groups did not differ. After seven months of interventions on the ground, some changes were observed. For example, 80% of the selected farmers kept pigs in pens regularly and started to utilized local available feeds. Thirty percent was willing to buy commercial feeds. All management tasks were done 50%, 40%, 10% by wives, husbands, and children, respectively. Vaccination was not totally implemented by them. We concluded that our interventions have changed some behaviors of focused famers and neighbors on the production in terms of management practices and feeding for pig fattening. More feeding options need to be assessed for better economic efficiencies.
