Royal University of Agriculture (RUA) has cooperated with University of California Davis to implement the project entitled “Safe Vegetable Production in Cambodia and Vietnam: Developing the HARE-Network to Enhance Farmer Income, Health and Local Environment” in Svay Proteal Commune, Saang District, Kandal Province, Cambodia. The goal is to empower small farmers with integrated experiential education and training for sustainable vegetable production that limits postharvest losses and increases food safety, market access and especially income. The outcomes from project implementation are as follows:

- Relationship and Capacity Building of Cambodian academics to carry out safe vegetable production research and demonstration projects were developed.

- Sustainable cost-effective systems that stabilize yields enhance the local environment, promote farmers and consumer health and satisfy market demands.

- Farmers’ post-harvest skills to get high-quality vegetables to market were improved.

- Micro-finance/micro-enterprise strategy for women through Joint Lending Groups (JLG) was implemented to support agriculture input.

- Education/Marketing team and private company HARPO-safe vegetable marketing in order to sustain products were collaborated.

- Capacity-Building was implemented with universities students and government officials.

- Effect of different vegetable cultural practices on weed, soil physical and chemical properties, post-harvest quality, and economics.