During the period 2009 and 2010, Agriterra supported the Agricultural Economic Management Station (AEMS) of the Yunnan Agricultural Department to introduce the People Participation Program (PPP) approach in three pilot counties. Staff of AEMS at County was trained as PPP-facilitator, while staff at Township level as well staff of FPOs was trained as Group Promoter (25 GP and 53 GP-FPO) during the 1st phase.

In December 2010 an Agriterra mission (Van Weperen / Arkesteijn) visited Yunnan and recommended a 2nd phase aiming at supporting pilot FPOs and/or a product sector. Agriterra accepted this recommendation, because the Yunnan experience could offer an interesting example for FPO development in other Countries. The present project aims at further developing five pilot FPO's in Menghai county.

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