Innovative Technologies for Increasing productivity, value addition, and market linkages on horticultural crops 16-23 July 2025 (including arrival and departure days)

Executive Center for Development Programs and Office of Extension and Training, Kamphaeng Saen, Kasetsart University, Kamphaeng Saen Campus, Thailand is conducting a course on innovation Technologies for increasing productivity, value addition, and market linkages on horticultural crops.

Title: Innovative Technologies for Increasing productivity, value addition, and market linkages on horticultural crops
Date: 16-23 July 2025
Duration: Eight (8) days including arrival and departure days
Target Participants: Agricultural officers, agri-extensionist, farmers, entrepreneurs, and everyone who thinks this program might help them in their work and advocacy
Organized by: Executive Center for Development Programs, Office of Extension and Training-Kamphaeng Saen Campus

Objectives and Program Design
This program is designed for the participants to be able to learn, observe, and adapt innovative technologies to increase productivity on horticultural crops. They will be able to gain knowledge and skills on post-harvest management, value-addition and marketing of fruits and vegetable products.
The program design is a combination of a meeting/discussion with professors, experts, and even farmers/farm owners and also observational visit to farms, markets, and other pertinent places for them to learn and gain knowledge. This will not be limited to just listening to the presentation or outputs, but the participants will also be able to share knowledge and experience to the facilitators, especially to the co-participants to maximize learning.
At the end of this program, the participants will be able to make an action plan which might be applicable to their own context.

Venue/Activities/Topics/Focus of discussion and Places to Visit
• Overview on Technologies for Fruit and Vegetable Production.
• Best practices to increase productivity
• Value addition, and market linkages on horticultural crops.
• Value-added products on fruits and vegetable
• Products for exports
• Government support to increase production on horticultural crops
• Market linkages and Strategies
• Discussion with farmers’ experience, success, and challenges
• Farm visits
• Market visits
Venue/Visits:
• Kasetsart University, Kamphaeng Saen Campus (presentation/discussion with
experts)
• KU Bangkok (main campus)
• Department of Agriculture, Ministry of Agriculture and Cooperatives (MOAC)
• Agricultural Cooperatives or Farmers’ Group
• Wholesale Markets for fruits and vegetables