The Market Oriented Smallholder Value Chain program, a sustainable rice project in Thailand, successfully helped 19,000 smallholder farmers increase their net income by more than 20% while reducing the greenhouse gas emissions from their farming by 21%. The program also improved water quality by 14%.
The project started in 2016 to improve the lives of rice farmers and increase the production of sustainable and high-quality rice in the Northeastern provinces of Thailand.
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