Smallholder Horticulture Production and Post-Harvest Cooling in Bangkok

培训项目概述

Smallholder horticulture offers a rapid pathway to improved rural livelihoods, enhanced food security, and agricultural diversification. However, producers often face persistent challenges, including erratic water availability, pest pressures, and substantial post-harvest losses that reduce marketable yields. This four-day intensive programme in Bangkok equips practitioners with the technical competencies required to modernise production and preserve quality. Participants examine field-proven practices that bridge the gap between subsistence farming and commercial supply chains, focusing on resource-efficient management suitable for tropical and sub-tropical farming systems.

The curriculum addresses the complete horticulture value chain, from crop establishment to market delivery. Participants master precise drip irrigation scheduling to optimise water use efficiency, alongside Integrated Pest Management strategies that align with international standards. Special emphasis is placed on low-cost post-harvest technologies, particularly evaporative cooling systems, which dramatically extend product shelf life in hot climates without relying on expensive energy infrastructure. Through hands-on demonstrations and technical analyses, attendees gain direct exposure to scalable technologies adaptable to diverse smallholder contexts.

Beyond agronomic techniques, the course focuses on commercial viability and market integration. Attendees study produce grading, sorting, and food safety standards necessary to access premium urban wholesale and retail buyers. By analysing successful smallholder aggregation models and structured buyer linkages in Southeast Asia, participants learn how to organise farmer groups for collective marketing. The training prepares advisors and specialists to design and implement impactful interventions that raise farm incomes and strengthen local food systems upon their return.

Public agricultural institutions and donor-funded initiatives are prioritising horticulture value chain interventions to strengthen rural resilience and substitute food imports. Projects such as the Sustainable Agriculture Productivity Improvement Project require technical specialists who can deploy modern, climate-smart agronomy and reduce post-harvest deterioration. Rapidly expanding urban centres demand reliable volumes of safe, high-quality vegetables, yet smallholders often remain excluded due to post-harvest decay and non-compliance with quality standards. Delivering rigorous technical capacity in irrigation efficiency, zero-energy cooling, and market linkage frameworks is essential to ensure current development investments translate into sustainable, commercial outcomes for rural communities.

Delivered by Risalat Consultants International in Bangkok, Thailand, it combines expert-led sessions, real cases and group work, so that participants can apply what they learn in their own institution.

The Programme Strengthens Institutional Capability

• Principles of high-value vegetable production and nursery management for smallholders
• Soil moisture dynamics, evapotranspiration calculation, and water quality parameters
• Drip irrigation system design, emitter selection, low-pressure gravity systems, and maintenance
• Irrigation scheduling protocols based on crop growth stages and local climate data
• Practical exercise: Sizing and scheduling a smallholder gravity-fed drip kit
• Core principles of Integrated Pest Management (IPM) under FAO guidelines
• Field scouting techniques, economic threshold levels, and pest identification
• Biological and cultural controls, crop rotation design, and physical barrier deployment
• 目的地规划与管理
• 可持续旅游原则
• 遗产保护与管理
• 营销与游客体验

It is designed for horticulture extension officers and field advisors, agronomists supporting smallholder vegetable production, farmer group enterprise advisors and cooperative managers and others who want practical, current skills in tourism, culture and heritage.

The Growing Importance of Smallholder Horticulture Production and Post-Harvest Cooling in Bangkok

旅游、文化和遗产支撑着就业、本地企业和国家认同。要实现可持续发展，目的地需要开展规划，在游客、社区和环境之间取得平衡。

公共机构、运营商和社区在目的地管理、营销和遗产保护方面的合作日益密切。具备这些技能的团队能帮助各地从旅游业中获益，同时不失去其独特价值。

各机构日益需要具备以下能力的专业人员：

• 规划兼顾游客与社区的目的地
• 保护和管理遗产
• 推广目的地并改善游客体验
• 吸引社区参与并分享收益
• 监测旅游业绩与影响

Strong tourism, culture and heritage systems help organisations:

• 以可持续方式发展旅游业
• 保护遗产与环境
• 创造本地就业和企业
• 吸引投资和合作伙伴

This Smallholder Horticulture Production and Post-Harvest Cooling in Bangkok programme brings these elements together in a practical format, so that participants understand not only what good practice looks like but also how to introduce it in their own setting, with the people and resources they have.

Who Should Attend This Smallholder Horticulture Production and Post-Harvest Cooling in Bangkok Training?

本培训项目适合：

• Horticulture extension officers and field advisors
• Agronomists supporting smallholder vegetable production
• Farmer group enterprise advisors and cooperative managers
• Agriculture project officers from donor-financed programmes
• Irrigation and water management technical specialists
• Post-harvest handling and storage technicians
• Value chain development specialists in public ministries
• Market linkage and agribusiness development facilitators
• Technical specialists supporting Timor-Leste agricultural development
• 旅游部委及旅游机构工作人员
• 目的地管理人员
• 遗产与文化官员

本培训项目既适合经验丰富的专业人员，也适合刚承担新职责的人员。我们鼓励来自不同机构和国家的学员组成混合小组，因为学员能从彼此的经验中获益良多。

Smallholder Horticulture Production and Post-Harvest Cooling in Bangkok Training Objectives

Upon successful completion of this Smallholder Horticulture Production and Post-Harvest Cooling in Bangkok Training, participants will be able to:

• Calculate precise crop water requirements and drip irrigation schedules for tropical vegetable crops
• Design Integrated Pest Management protocols aligned with FAO standards and local agro-ecological conditions
• Evaluate the design, construction, and operation of low-cost evaporative cooling storage structures
• Apply standardised grading, sorting, and packaging protocols to meet commercial quality specifications
• Structure viable business linkage models connecting smallholder farmer groups with urban retail and wholesale markets
• Analyse post-harvest loss points across handling, packing, and transit to implement targeted mitigation measures
• Formulate smallholder-targeted training and extension modules for rapid field-level adoption
• 阐释可持续旅游的原则
• 与利益相关方共同规划和管理目的地
• 运用遗产保护与管理实践

每项目标都会在培训期间通过练习、案例或小组作业加以实践，使学员结业时不仅能够描述，更能够实际运用。

培训项目内容与结构

Smallholder Horticulture Production and Post-Harvest Cooling in Bangkok Training Methodology

The training employs an applied adult-learning methodology that combines technical lectures, practical calculation workshops, and interactive case analyses. Participants review operational blueprints, technical guidelines, and market case studies from Southeast Asian horticulture systems. Working in small peer groups, attendees complete hands-on exercises in irrigation sizing, IPM planning, and cooling chamber design, ensuring the direct translation of technical concepts into adaptable field tools for extension delivery.

本培训项目融合了：

• 专家主讲当前实践
• 区域及国际案例研究
• 小组作业与实践练习
• 视情况安排模拟演练与角色扮演
• 探讨学员自身面临的挑战
• 跨机构、跨国家的同伴学习
• 可带回工作岗位的实用工具与模板
• 每日反思与行动规划

培训开始前，简短的课前评估可帮助讲师了解每位学员的岗位职责和重点关注事项，以便根据学员群体调整案例和练习。每天结束时安排简短的反思环节，学员记录下将在工作中应用的内容。

预期成果

Upon completion of this Smallholder Horticulture Production and Post-Harvest Cooling in Bangkok Training, participants will be able to:

• Proficiency in calculating crop water needs and operating small-scale drip irrigation systems
• Ability to design and teach FAO-aligned Integrated Pest Management programmes to rural producer groups
• Competence in selecting, constructing, and maintaining appropriate evaporative cooling facilities
• Capacity to institute formal produce grading, handling, and quality control systems at community collection points
• Practical strategies to negotiate and maintain reliable commercial relationships between farmer groups and urban buyers
• Completed action plans for deploying horticulture and post-harvest interventions within ongoing project frameworks
• 以可持续方式规划目的地
• 保护和管理遗产

学员结业时将获得个人行动计划和实用工具，回到工作岗位的第一周即可在机构中应用。派出多名学员的机构可借助本培训项目，在各团队之间统一方法和模板，使改进成果更易持续。

Institutional Application of Smallholder Horticulture Production and Post-Harvest Cooling in Bangkok Training

本培训项目帮助机构加强：

• 目的地管理
• 遗产保护
• 市场营销
• 社区参与
• 绩效监测

学员将带着实用工具回到工作岗位，以提升：

• 目的地规划
• 游客管理
• 营销计划
• 合作伙伴协议
• 旅游统计

本培训项目的设计旨在让学习成果从课堂延伸至机构。学员尽可能围绕自身的流程和文件开展练习，并在结业时带走一份可供其主管审阅和支持的行动计划。

区域相关性与应用

欧洲

European institutions apply tourism, culture and heritage within detailed regulatory frameworks and reform agendas. Participants from Europe can compare their practice with colleagues from other regions and test how established methods work under different conditions.

非洲

Across Africa, ministries, agencies and project teams working in tourism, culture and heritage increasingly operate alongside donor-financed programmes that expect clear systems and evidence. The programme helps participants adapt good practice to the institutions and resources they work with.

中东

In the Middle East, national development strategies and diversification plans place growing demands on tourism, culture and heritage. Participants explore how to build the capability these plans need inside public bodies and companies.

亚洲

亚洲各国的机构在快速发展的同时，推进着雄心勃勃的现代化计划。来自亚洲的学员可以分享快速扩展系统的经验，并借鉴其他地区的做法。

太平洋地区

Small island and Pacific states face particular constraints of size, distance and capacity. The programme highlights practical, proportionate approaches to tourism, culture and heritage that suit smaller institutions.

Holding the programme in Bangkok, Thailand brings participants together away from their daily pressures, so they can compare how tourism, culture and heritage is handled in different settings. The same programme can also be delivered in-house for one institution, in its own country or online, with cases taken from its current work.

东道国概况：泰国

探索在曼谷举办的专家主讲培训。参加Risalat的专业课程，提升领导力、财务、治理和发展领域的技能。

在本国以外学习，可让学员专心投入，以全新视角审视本机构，并有机会与其他国家的同行建立人脉网络。

Smallholder Horticulture Production and Post-Harvest Cooling in Bangkok Training Deliverables

学员在培训前、培训中及培训后均可获得支持，使准备、学习与跟进形成连贯完整的体验。

培训开始前

• 学员课前评估
• Smallholder Horticulture Production and Post-Harvest Cooling in Bangkok Readiness Assessment
• Smallholder Horticulture Production and Post-Harvest Cooling in Bangkok Resource Pack
• 课前阅读资料
• 免费签证支持与咨询

培训期间

• 机场接机与欢迎协助
• 住宿（含早餐）
• 欢迎交流晚宴
• Risalat培训礼包（背包、水瓶、马克杯、T恤、帽子、护照套、笔、笔记本、冰箱贴及钥匙扣）
• Comprehensive Smallholder Horticulture Production and Post-Harvest Cooling in Bangkok Training Manual
• 目的地评估检查清单
• 游客管理计划模板
• 营销计划模板
• 旅游监测模板
• 实践研讨与模拟演练
• 小组讨论与同伴学习
• 每日午餐与茶歇
• 全面使用培训场地设施
• 装有数字学习资料的迷你平板电脑
• 实地考察（如适用）
• 城市休闲观光

培训结束后

• 结业证书
• Risalat培训项目参与表彰奖
• 培训后参考资料
• 遗产地管理检查清单
• 社区受益计划模板
• 培训后支持与跟进指导
• 培训项目报告

各机构也可申请本培训项目的定制内训版本，在其办公场所或在线举办。索取方案建议书。

Common Challenges in Smallholder Horticulture Production and Post-Harvest Cooling in Bangkok, And How This Training Helps

How can institutions plan destinations that balance visitors and communities?

The programme addresses this directly on the first day (Precision Smallholder Production and Drip Irrigation Systems), where participants practise the methods involved and adapt them to their own institution, then build it into their action plan.

How can institutions protect and manage heritage?

The programme addresses this directly on the second day (Integrated Pest Management and Crop Protection Frameworks), where participants practise the methods involved and adapt them to their own institution, then build it into their action plan.

How can institutions market destinations and improve visitor experience?

The programme addresses this directly on the third day (Post-Harvest Physiology and Low-Cost Evaporative Cooling), where participants practise the methods involved and adapt them to their own institution, then build it into their action plan.

How can institutions involve communities and share benefits?

The programme addresses this directly on the fourth day (Quality Standards, Aggregation, and Urban Market Linkages), where participants practise the methods involved and adapt them to their own institution, then build it into their action plan.

How can institutions monitor tourism performance and impacts?

The programme addresses this directly on the first day (Precision Smallholder Production and Drip Irrigation Systems), where participants practise the methods involved and adapt them to their own institution, then build it into their action plan.

常见问题

When and where does the Smallholder Horticulture Production and Post-Harvest Cooling in Bangkok programme take place?

It runs from 2 Aug 2027 to 5 Aug 2027, in Bangkok, Thailand. The registration deadline is shown at the top of this page.

谁应参加？

The programme is designed for horticulture extension officers and field advisors, agronomists supporting smallholder vegetable production, farmer group enterprise advisors and cooperative managers, agriculture project officers from donor-financed programmes, and others who want practical skills in tourism, culture and heritage.

我能获得证书吗？

能。完成本培训项目的学员将获得Risalat Consultants International颁发的结业证书。

本培训项目能否仅为我们机构单独举办？

可以。我们可以在贵机构所在地、其他城市或在线提供量身定制的内训版本，并围绕贵机构自身的案例设计内容。请使用本页面的方案建议书申请表。

我是否需要具备旅游、文化和遗产方面的经验？

除具备相关岗位经验外，无需其他专业背景。简短的课前评估可帮助讲师根据学员群体调整课程。

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