Resource Center
 
 

UHDP Small Farm and Agroforestry Resource Center 

    From the 14-acre Small Farm Resource Center, UHDP evaluates and demonstrates often overlooked appropriate technologies related to sustainable rural development for resource-poor hilltribe people. With goals of helping to increase upland food sufficiency in addition to equipping hilltribe partners in the sustainable utilization and conservation of surrounding biodiverse tropical forests, opportunities for training and exchange are continually offered at the UHDP Center. Each year, hundreds of trainees and visitors, including hilltribe farmers, technicians from regional development projects, Thai students as well as international students and volunteers, spend from a few hours to a few months at the UHDP Center.


Time for a group shot during an excursion to Uncle Tisae's agroforest.
 
 

 

    Additionally, plant and animal breeding stock are produced at the center in support of community-based sustainable agricultural activities. Much of the plant breeding stock includes increasingly rare native forest species that are needed to supplement UHDP’s village agroforestry programming. Ultimately, this effort equips hilltribe communities to sustainably produce their own seedlings and other agroforest products.

    Besides the evaluation and demonstration of livestock, as well as field and forest crop production systems, the UHDP center has facilities for meetings and trainings and can accommodate lodging for up to 50 short- and long-term trainees and guests.
 
 

Harvesting bamboo at the UHDP Center. Hollow tubes
are to be cut for use as containers in which to
cook rice and curries over an open fire.
  

Students inspecting the topsoil in an agroforest plot
at the UHDP center for insects , earthworms
and other fauna which indicate healthy soils.

Visitors preparing foods harvested from fields and
agroforest plots at the UHDP center.
  

A St. Stephan College student trying her hand at winnowing freshly harvested rice at the Ob Sua Waen village.
 
 

UHDP Small Farm and Agroforestry Resource Center Rates:
  • Dorm accommodations - 100 Baht/person/night
  • Meals - 40 to 70 Baht/meal
  • Training/Educational Program - 3000 to 5000 Baht/day/group
  • Offsite Excursion - 1500 Baht/day/group (food/transportation not included)

For more information regarding services provided by the UHDP Resource Center contact Rick Burnette (uhdp@loxinfo.co.th)



 

 
 
UHDP Resource Center Library
    The following are booklets related to sustainable agricuture produced by UHDP. Click on the cover to open a PDF of each booklet and to download a free copy.

BACKYARD CHICKEN PRODUCTION USING LOCAL BREEDS
Sustainable Agriculture for the Golden Triangle Uplands Series

AGROFORESTRY OPTIONS FOR SMALL UPLAND FARMS
Sustainable Agriculture for the Golden Triangle

BACKYARD CHICKEN PRODUCTION USING LOCAL BREEDS
Sustainable Agriculture for the Golden Triangle Uplands Series (Thai Version)
AGROFORESTRY OPTIONS FOR SMALL UPLAND FARMS
Sustainable Agriculture for the Golden Triangle (Thai Version)
 
 
P.O.Box 43, Fang, Chiang Mai 50110 Thailand,
Phone: 66-53-473-221
E-mail:uhdp@loxinfo.co.th