MoU of ODOP2 was signed between three parties, JICA, Ministry of Industry and Commerce and project leader of ODOP2 on 25 Jan 2012. ODOP2 will start from April 2012 until Dec 2012 covering 5 Provinces in South: Champasak, Attapeu Xekong, Saravanh and Savannakhet to discover and develop potential products. We are very happy to show you Laos unknown treasure here.

2012年1月25日、ODOP2の為のMoUが、JICA、商業工業省、ODOPの間で締結されました。ODOP2は2012年4月から2015年12月までの予定で、ラオス南部５県（チャンパサック、アッタプー、セコン、サラワン、サバナケット）を対象地域とし、様々な知られざる宝物産品を発掘していく予定です。乞うご期待！！

Filtering experiment

For improving the level of taste and quality of ODOP whisky, we introduced filtering method with celish and charcoal. Thanks to Mr. Yasaki, who is expert of Whisky, we finished first filtering experiment with Black rice whisky, rice Whisky (Lao Khao) Banana brandy. Color, sell and taste were amazingly improved. We will do this once again for the quality to be ready to export BKK, France and Japan.

ODOPプロジェクトでは、今まで地酒（ラオラオ）の改良や新しいお酒（バナナ酒・黒米酒）の開発を行ってきました。その質を更に高める、国際的標準まで持っていく為、バンコクの日本人矢崎先生をお招きし、セリッシュと炭を使う特別なフィルタリング方法の実験を行いました。その結果、米焼酎・黒米焼酎・バナナブランデーの質の向上、匂いと味の改善に成功しました。今後1ヵ月後にフィルタリングを再度行い、バンコク・フランス・日本への輸出できるレベルまで持って行く予定です。

On 31^st of Dec 2011 to 4^th of Jan 2012 at Savannakhet vocational school and Champasak Grand hotel, ODOP held a training about bakery by pastry chef named Mr. Oshida from Japan. He introduced the way to make rice and black rice flour cakes and breads, without normal flour.

Mr. Oshida and ODOP team believed that this training is very important first step to develop Laos bread product. Because now they can use only normal flour imported from Vietnam when they make bread, but if they can make cakes and bread with rice flour, they don’t have to import it, and moreover it helps famers. Mr. Oshida also said “lice flour in Laos has very much potential for making high quality bread and cakes”.

12月31日から1月4日にかけ、日本の米粉パテシエ（押田様）を招き、サバナケットとパクせーで米粉ケーキとパンのトレーニングを行いました。ラオスのパンの小麦粉は全てベトナムなどの隣国から輸入されています。もし、ラオスの米・黒米でそれ以上のパンやケーキが作れるのであれば、ラオスパン屋の技術向上だけでなく、ラオス農家を助けることにもなります。

また、パテシアの押田様は、「ラオスの黒米粉を使い色をつけたケーキやパンは凄く美しくなる」と仰り、トレーニングの中でも、黒米粉を使った美しいケーキの作り方の技術移転をして下さりました。

This product was supported by FIDA project, but by the reason of the end of the project ODOP project took over this product since this Sep after FIDA’s contacts. Product itself was already good, but the color was not beautiful and they couldn’t have sticker and brand picture. In this way as a first touch, we try to develop these problems.

Up to now, we sold this product in many festivals in Vientiane. Most of people like it for the reason of the natural smell!! This is produced by Women group of Ban Naxeng, Meaung Kaysone Phomvihan, Savannakhet Province.

Place to sell in Vientiane : River side Mini Mart

* We are looking for new place to sell our products.

Since 2010, ODOP project invites Thai expert for making a new and big kiln with local soil at Pakkaya village Atsaphone Disctict, Savannakhet Province. This village is famous of pottery thanks to the high quality of the local soil. But due to the low quality of kiln, they can't produce high quality products. Therefore we started making a new kiln.

In the end of Nov 2011, finally we finished making the kiln. And now producers are making new products. We will see beautiful pottery products in market soon.

2010年以降サバナケット県アサポン郡パカヤ村で、タイの専門家を招き、陶器の窯作りを行ってきました。この村は良質な土が取れる故にもともと陶器で有名な村でした。しかし、窯の質が悪く、惜しくも良質の陶器を作ることができない問題点があったため、ODOPとして新たな窯作りを行うところから始まりました。

2011年11月の末に、ついに新たな窯ができ、現在生産者は、新しい陶器産品作りを行っております。この村の蘇った伝統工芸をみれる日も遠くないはずです。

On 19th to 23rd of Oct, we will join in Handicraft festival in Vientiane. The products we will take are below

Saravanh : Upgraded banana fiber products, Rattan handicraft products, Banana whiskey, Wild honey, fish feed, Bread with black rice

Savannakhet : Cultured honey, Ancient salt, SPA salt, Sin savanh, Rattan shoot, Black rice, Banana flour, Cake with rice flour, Aloe vera drink, Herbal shampoo

10月19日から23日まで開かれるラオス最大のイベント、ハンディクラフトフェスティバル。ODOPも以下の産品を持って参加致します。

サラワン：グレードアップしたバナナ繊維・籐細工・バナナウィスキー、天然蜂蜜、魚の餌、黒米粉を使ったパン

サバナケット：養蜂蜂蜜、古代塩、スパの塩、ビーフジャーキー、籐の芽、黒米、米粉を使ったお菓子、バナナ粉、アロエ飲料、ハーブのシャンプー

Thanks to the result of training for making SPA salt by SPA salt producer from Thailand on 14 Sep 2011, now ODOP Ancient Salt producer is developing salt for SPA. Materials of this SPA salt are some herbal leaves. Your skin will be beautiful when you put it on after bathing. If you are interested in this salt, please contact to us.

2011年9月14日に行われたタイの生産者によるトレーニングの結果、古代の塩の生産者は現在、SPAの為の塩を開発中です。SPAの為の塩は、様々なハーブを使って作られています。使うと肌が滑々、きれいになります。興味がある人はプロジェクトまでお問い合わせ下さい。

To develop students who dream doing bakery business, Technical and Vocation School in Savannakhet and ODOP project opened new curriculum in the school on 9^th of Sep 2011 with 5 high motivated students. In the year curriculum, students will manage real bakery business after receiving training such as baking skill, management skill, customer service, marketing skill and so on. The school and ODOP project wish students would learn actively and after graduation they would be change agent of bakery business in Savannakhet.

New bakery managed by these students will open in the end of Oct at Technical and Vocation school in Savannakhet near Singapore market.

サ バナケットの職業訓練センターとODOPプロジェクトの協同により、「パンビジネスコース」が2011年9月9日に開講されました。受講する5人の生徒 は、様々なトレーニングを得た後に実際にパン屋を運営しながら、パン屋のビジネスに必要なことを学んでいきます。学生達が作る今までにサバナケットにはな いパンが置かれるパン屋がオープンするのは10月の末の予定です。

producers holding new disign products

Banana fiber design workshop held from 29th Aug to 1st Sep 2011, we held banana fiber design workshop in Houayhounthai village, Laongam district. Japanese university students (Tama Art University) designed brand-new banana fiber products. This time was third times for them to come to help this village, and we appreciated their big hands so much. Producers learnt their skill and made pretty cute products.

バナナ繊維デザインワークショップ開催  8月29日から9月1日の4日間、バナナ繊維のデザインワークショップを開催しました。日本の多摩美術大学の学生が新しい製品を考案し生産者たちは新しい製品作りの技術を学びました。バナナ繊維を活かしたとてもかわいい新製品が完成しました。

Organic black rice series!!! Now we try to produce black rice noodle called Kao Phun. It will be special Savannakhet product that you can see only in Savannakhet.

オーガニックな黒米シリーズ。ラオスの素麺（カオプン）を黒米粉を使って作りました。サバナケットでしか食べる事のできない特別な産品になる予定です。興味のある人はサバナケットまで遊びに来て下さい！！

Traditional ceremony

Ms.Satomi Harada, a Japanese TV performer, who runs an ethical fashion fair trade shop in Nagoya city, visited ODOP project site both of Saravanh and Savannaket on 10-11 Aug 2011. She visited ODOP rattan products' village and tried to weave a rattan basket. Women producer group warmly welcomed her and prayed for her safe trip and success of her business in the way of Lao traditional ceremony. She was moved to tears by local people's hospitality. While in Banana fiber village, she bought various textiles and gave some selling advices to the producers.

8月10日・11日に名古屋のローカルの原田さとみさんがサラワンとサバナケットのODOPサイトを視察されました。ラタン製品のベンダーン村では歓迎・活動内容の説明を受けた後、生産者の家を訪問してラタン製品の作り方を教わりました。また、最後には生産者たちによってこれからの旅の安全や健康・仕事面などでの幸せを祈って糸を腕に結びつける儀式が行なわれました。原田さんは村人の暖かさに触れることができ、とても心に響いたとおっしゃっていました。その後バナナ繊維製品のホアイフン村を訪れ、後帯機の実演をご覧になった後、ひとつひとつの製品をよく見て特に美しい天然染色の製品をいつくかご自身のお店で販売するためにご購入されました。

Tasting of ODOP Aloe Vera drink

As one of the result of the this project, department of Industry and Commerce, which is our counterpart, holds a lot of seminars and study tours from other provinces to introduce ODOP activities and high quality and unique products. On 10^th of Aug, they held ODOP seminar in Savannakhet for the 70 guests from Ministry of Industry and Commerce.

本プロジェクトの一つの成果として、カウンターパートであるサバナケートとサラワンの産業商業局が、各県のODOPの活動を、ODOP運動の全国推進の為のセミナーやスタディツアーなどで公演する機会が増えてきました。

8月10日には、産業商業省が70人ほどのゲストをサバナケートに連れてきて、ODOPのセミナーを開催しました。

In last month for a few weeks, Banana fiber products ODOP from Saravanh were on display and sold in department store in Nagoya and Osaka, Japan. Because textiles of South of Laos, especially so called back strap weaving, is not really introduced to Japan, the visitors were interested in the unknown high technique and bought them as interior bag.

大阪心斎橋のボアヴァン美術工芸と名古屋高島屋におきましてサラワン県ホアイフンタイ村のバナナ繊維バッグや後帯機織物の展示販売をいたしました。ラオス南部の後帯機による織物製品は日本ではまだあまり紹介されておらず、ご来店下さったお客様は後帯機織物の独特の風合いやバナナ繊維の持つつやに関心を持たれていました。おうちのインテリアやお散歩バッグにとたくさんの方にご購入いただけました。ご来店下さいました皆さまにお礼申し上げます。

One of the project supports is to be intermediary of bottles for local producers who can’t access to appropriate and high quality bottles. Because of the fact that high quality bottle was produced only in big city like Bangkok, local people in Lao can’t access to them without any support. Bottle can help products made a lot of difference such as retention period and looks.

This time project delivered more than 2000bottles with 5 different types for Rattan Shoot, Honey and Aloe Drink producers.

We visited to a village which is going to raise special snail from mountain (Named Hoi Hom) with ODOP project . They caught some amount, but because rice planting started a week ago and they are busy, they will start to catch bigger amount later.
This village is in Vapi District, Saravanh Province.

26th of June, we had an exhibition of Lao-Thai-Vietnam tourism conference at Dao Savanh Hotel in Savannakhet Province. As new products, Sticky rice cakes (called Mochi in Japanese) were tasted and Lao traditional buckets were displayed. Both of those products received good reactions from participants.

To promote process of production, producers and Laos more and more, ODOP project creates activities' video and uploads on You Tube. First video is about Rattan Shoot Training. Please click the button to see it !!!

Event in Japan about textiles of South Laos

On 23rd to 26th of June, there is an exhibition about natural drying textiles of south part of Laos in Osaka, Japan. Banana Fiber products of ODOP is on diplay and sold. And Ms Wakaba Sasaki, ODOP project staff, will show the special way of weaving in south Laos, called back strap weaving. Please come to visit the exhibition.

6月23日(木)～26日(月)まで、大阪にあるボアヴァン美術工塾にて、「ラオス南部の草木染織物」の展示会が開催されます。その中に、ODOPの一つであるバナナ繊維のバックが展示される他、プロジェクトスタッフの佐々木若葉による、ラオス南部の特徴的な織り方、後帯機が披露される予定。お時間がありましたら、是非是非訪れてみてください。

Honey Producers promoting

Thanks to a big cooperation from Department of Industry and Commerce in Champasak, ODOP team held ODOP products tasting event of ODOP products at Champasak Palace Hotel on 26^th of May 2011. More than 15 ODOP producers came to promote their own products to around 50 visitors from shops and restaurants. Our Project knew a big market potential on Pakse City in Champasak Province.

Next Tasting event will be hold at Vientiane Capital soon.

Baby snails

Under Snails (named Hoihom from Vapi District in Saravanh Province) project, ODOP project tries to raise them since May 2010. Finally last week, we succeeded breeding to bear the snail babies. According to what the villagers said, they have never succeeded breeding them and never seen snail baby. Hoihoms is a famous product in this district, so villagers are now willing to try to breed them from this rainy season.

Savanh Development News paper interviewing a famour

On 20^th of May 2011, The Crops Research and Seed Multiplication Center (CRSMT) in Savannakhet and Department of Industry and Commerce (DIC) held the training of organic plantation of black rice combined with frog raising for expanding producer groups because last term the black rice project succeeded increasing a big gross production by the same method.

This time, more than 30 villagers from Champhone District in Savannakhet Province came to learn for next coming harvest season.

Ms. Kumiko Endo experiencing hand weaving

Ms. Kumiko Endo, a Japanese celebrated actress, visited project site of banana fiber pilot project in Houayhountai village, Laongam district, Saravanh province on 22^nd of Feb, 2011. She experienced traditional hand weaving and extraction of banana fiber from banana stem. She was very surprised at producers' technique and said  “I didn’t know that making these beautiful textiles is really difficult and they work very hard!”

バナナ繊維プロジェクトを行なっているサラワン県ラオガム郡

ホアイフンタイ村に女優の遠藤久美子さんが視察にいらっしゃい

ました。村ではバナナ繊維製品の生産グループメンバー19名と交流をしなが

ら、後帯機による織物の体験やバナナ繊維抽出の見学をされました。

後帯機による複雑な工程の織りを体験された遠藤さんは「ほんとう

に大変な作業」と感想を述べられ、村のメンバーの織物製品の美し

さに驚かれておられました。

* 遠藤さんは、ラオス現地視察の様子をご自身のブログに書き綴ってくださっています。バナナ繊維の生産者のように、ひとつひとつ丁寧に。

http://enkumi.at.webry.info/

walking in rattan plantation area

On 22^nd -24^th of Feb 2011, ODOP project invited Mr. Iki Kenichiro as a technical advicer (with other Japanese tourists) to seek for the potentiality of linkage between ODOP and eco tourism, and to give feedbacks to villagers’ preparation to accept eco tour in the future. At this time, they mainly visited banana fiber village (Houayhountai Village, Laongam District, Salavanh Province) and rattan products village (Beandan Village, Lakhonepheng District, Saravanh Province).

At banana fiber village, their activities are experience of hand weaving, extraction of banana fiber yarn, observation of natural dying and villagers’ life style.
At rattan products village, their activities are experience of producing rattan products, walking in rattan plantation area, and staying overnight at village.

If you are interested in eco tour in south Laos, please contact us.

ODOP gift

ODOP gifts of VIPs for opening ceremony of road side station at Phalanxai district, Savannakhet province, Laos  include Rattan basket, Joss stick, Honey, beef jerky, Bottled rattan shoot, Black rice, Wooden pen, Bee’s wax candle, Ancient salt and Banana fiber. The price is about 300,000KIP/USD37/THB750.

If you’d like to order ODOP gift, please contact us. You can customize ODOP products to make a special gift. 

Ambassador of Embassy of Japan in Lao PDR visited to ODOP booth

On 19th of Feb, ODOP project participated  in opening ceremony of road side station at Phalanxai district in Savannakhet province of Laos to sell ODOP products and to give ODOP gift set to VIPs such as ambassador of embassy of Japan in Lao PDR.

Sold products were banana fiber textiles, rattan products, wild honey and wooden pen from Saravanh products, and rattan shoot, raised honey, ancient salt, beef jerky and rice flour bread from Savannakhet products.

Rattan Pha khao (Dining table), Saravanh

Laos ODOP products are now availabe at the shops and restaurants in Vientiane, Savannakhet, Saravanh, Luang Prabang, Pakse, and Bangkok (Thailand). For more details, please refer to here ("Where to buy ODOP product" page).

ODOP booth

Now @ ITEC in Vientiane, ODOP project is having booth at International Trade Fair (Jan 26th - 30th).

ODOP project with DIC Savannakhet and Saravanh sell the products below, while more than 100 booths sells various products from Laos and Thai in this festival. 

(From Saravanh)

New-style bag with embroidery by Banana fiber

Textile with embroidery by Banana fiber

Rattan products (Dining table, Mini-dining table, basket, etc.)

Wild honey (Size: Small/Medium)

(From Savannakhet)

Aloe drink (plastic bottled)

Organic Black rice (vacuum-packed)

Raised Honey (Size: Small/Medium/Large) 

Ancient salt (handy bottled)

New-shaped Beeswax candle

Rattan shoot (bottled, Size: Medium)

Beef jerky (vacuum-packed, Taste: local taste, Lemon grass, pepper, Chili) 

Natural Joss stick

Black Rice Field

Now a hundred percent of a little frog organic sticky black rice or “Khao Kam” of ODOP project can be found in Laos market.
This black rice was grown by farmers in Champhone District, Savannakhet Province, under technical support by The Thasano Crops Research and Seed Multiplication Center.  They raise frog in the rice field also to protect enemy insects and to ensure that their rice is grow by organic system.  

New style bag with banana fiber

New style bags with banana fiber debut!

This products are made by several materials including cotton and local banana fiber, produced by ODOP members of Houayhuntai village, Laogam District, Saravanh province. The members acquired banana fiber yarn processing and  combined that skill with their traditional weaving skill to develop this product through the workshops by Japanese trainers from Banana textile project of Tama Art University under the project. 

spinning local cotton

Under local cotton project, spinning local cotton training was conducted by Mr. Ounkham Onphachan (Department of Industry and Commerce, Oudomxay Province, Laos) from 14th to 16th Dec, 2010 for ODOP members of Houayhuntai village, Laogam District, Saravanh province.

In the past women in the village by themselves used to do all of the processes from spinning to weaving cotton. But since they got able to access cheap cotton yarn easily in local markets, they’ve shifted yarn of cotton textile into it even if it wasn’t with good quality, and in the result local cotton yarn has disappeared. But to revive traditional, local, and high quality cotton textile, they actively learnt the way from cultivating cotton to spinning it in this training.

The day is coming soon when we can see 100% hands-made local cotton textile of Saravanh province!!

aloe drink product

Aloe is well known as a healthful plant. With support from an OTOP (One Tambon One Product) aloe drink producer in Thailand, we succeeded development of aloe drink as a new healthful product in Savannkhet province of Laos. Aloe has a power of enhancing healing properties and helping curing illness such as laxative, sterilization and toxin neutralization. Producers improved the taste for people to drink deliciously. We sold 250 bottles out in the International Trade Fair in Savannakhet 2010 (8^th to 13^th of Dec 2010).

WIG Bazaar

ODOP pilot project participated in WIG (Women's international Group) Bazaar at Vientiane on 27th of November to seek for potential business partners dealing with our products. We gained a potential partner from Luang Prabng to deal with Banana Sprit (new-taste Lao Lao). We will update information on the places where you can buy our ODOP products below. Please check it out!

http://odop.jimdo.com/where-to-buy-odop-products/  

ODOP booth

ODOP products are popular with customers! @ Handicraft Festival.

They are Rattan products, Banana fiber products, Textiles with beads embroidery, wild honey, wild beeswax candle, Banana whiskey, Ancient salt, Black rice, Joss stick, wooden ballpoint pen, Bottled Rattan shoots, Beef jerky, Rattan toothpick. Please come and check them out!

Reborn ODOP products were debut!

Tasting event & Exhibition was hold at Houngthip restaurant in Savannakhet city on Oct 21, 2010 inviting souvenir shops, hotels, and restaurants. ODOP producers appealed their products to potential customers, and most of the products had a good reputation from them. Some producers made communications even for future business!

(Producers practiced lessons from marketing training on Oct 20 at ODOP development Center.)

For Tasting:

From Savannakhet -> Rice flour, Rattan shoot, Aloe drink, Beef jerky (Sin Savan), Black rice, Ancient salt, and Natural honey (raised)

From Saravanh -> Wild honey, Banana whiskey

For Display:

From Savannakhet -> Joss stick, Natural Toothpick, New-shaped beeswax candle

From Saravanh -> Snails, Rattan products, traditional textiles with embroidery of beads and banana fiber, New designed bag with Banana fiber

Under Rattan Shoot pilot project, Rattan shoot bottling training was conducted at village Laohuakham villages, Champhone district of Savannakhet province on 24th of Sep 2010 cooperated with Savannakhet Technical and Vocational school. This aims to deliver knowledge of the process of making bottled rattan shoot to people in the target villages. More than 40 people from three villages came to the training.

We can find rattan shoot mainly in rainy season in Laos, although it is one of the most loved foods by Lao people. If we can succeed to make bottled rattan shoot, we could supply it to domestic and international market anytime and it could assist local villages to generate their income.

ODOP project booth

We joined in and sold ODOP pilot products at Pakse Market in Champasak Province from 14th to 17th of September. Pakse is one of the biggest cities in Laos. Joss stick (incense), Beef jerky (Sin Savanh), and Wild Honey were sold very well!

We are looking forward to joining the biggest handicraft festival at Vientiane from 1st to 5th of November. 

Rattan Mini-Pha Khao

Rattan Mini Pha Khao is now on sale!

This is one of the new products developed in rattan product pilot project, easy to be carried by both Lao residents and tourists. "Detachable tray" is the appealing feature, and the tray can be used for multi purposes.   

 This is from Bengdan village rattan basketry group in Lakhonpheng District, Saravanh Province.

Rattan case (jar) for flower! This is unique idea on how to use rattan products, since they are beautiful, natural, and durabale. Actually, this product was originally developed for tissue case (roll-type), but it can be used for varios purposes. We are looking forward to receiving your unique idea!

Rattan basket bag

Rattan basket bag was released! This product is developed under Rattan products pilot project. More details are coming soon! 

Ancient salt from the ground

Visited salt factory in Champhone district, Savannakhet. Salt is beautiful like snow..and delicious. They pump up water from deep under the ground, then dry it in the sun or boil it.  The factory has tried to improve their packaging of the salt to be handy. New packaging is coming up soon!

Beautiful Banana textiles

We joined Night market in Savannakhet during 25th-27th, 2010. ODOP products were selling well!!

They are Rattan Pha khao (dining table), Banana textiles, Wild honey, Natural joss stick (incense), Beef jerky (Sin Savanh), Rattan shoot, Rattan toothpick...

Best selling product was Rattan Pha khao!

Hygiene practice seminar

A seminar about basic good hygiene practice was held for ODOP producers and counterparts in collaboration with Dr. Viengxay from Ministry of Health on on July 30th, 2010. Main objective of this seminar was to provide participants with knowledge to obtain “Oyo” mark, which is necessary for the product to pass criteria of sanitation set by Department of Health. 

Contents of the seminar were divided into two. First one is lecture about basic hygiene, and second one is actual visit to production site of Beef jerky (Shin Savan), one of the ODOP pilot products. 

At first, Dr. Viengxay showed photos of good cases and bad cases of hygiene practice on food production process to get the participants to check their own production process. She also taught that the way of managing food production process such as how producers need to keep material good, and what they need to wear, and how clean kitchen should be.

In the second part, the participants moved to production site of Beef jerky (Shin Savan) and the producer showed her food production process, kitchen , and cookware. Then they moved back to the seminar room and discussed good points, bad points, and improvement points.

Through this seminar, producers got ideas of what and how they need to improve in their processing. This is first steps for future improvement. 

Eco-bag

Locally developed Eco-bag with banana fiber is now on sale from banana fiber pilot project.

This eco-bag with mixture of banana fiber and cotton is sturdy, wrinkle-resistant, and absorbent compared to bag with only cotton thanks for the unique features of banana fiber. Various designs and color patterns are available.   

It can be said that, this is "ultimate" eco-bag because only natural materials are used. Of course, no electricity is used as energy for its production.  

Eco-bag with banana fiber is produced by ODOP members of Houayhuntai village, Laogam District, Saravanh province as one of the outputs through Hand sewing training. 

Hand sewing training

Under Hand-spun Banana fiber yarn project, Hand sewing Training was conducted from 26th to 30th July, 2010 for ODOP members of Houayhuntai village, Laogam District, Saravanh province with coordination by DIC Saravanh and Ms. Wakaba Sasaki 佐々木若葉 (Japanese Overseas Cooperation Volunteer). This aims to encourage them to create value-added products with banana fiber yarn like "eco-bag" by improving their skill of hand sewing.  

The members acquired banana fiber yarn processing skill through the training by two Japanese trainers from Banana textile project of Tama Art University on Feb 2010. Since then, they have been successfully developing varieties of new banana fiber yarns. They also developed new natural-dying method with discarded-fiber extracted from banana stems.  

As marketing trial of the new products, they participated in ODOP fair in Savannakhet in March 2010. Two members demonstrated the use of banana fiber yarn, that is, textile production to attract the customers. As a result, many peoples were interested in the banana fiber yarn, and their products were sold well.

Now is the time for next step. 

Rattan Pha Khao

New rattan product, "Pha Khao" (dining table in Lao) is developed in rattan product pilot project. This will be available for sale soon in Coolao in Vientiane, and Night Market in Savannakhet to be held on July - August 2010.

Appealing features of this Pha Khao are 100% rattan hand-made (normally bamboo), and "detachable tray", which can be used as place mat, and easy to be cleaned. This is from Bengdan village rattan basketry group in Lakhonpheng District, Saravanh Province.

Rattan product is recognized as one of the typical Lao traditional handicrafts that is utilized and cherished by Lao people as necessary articles for Lao-style daily life. Ban Bengdan is widely recognized as a village of rattan product in Saravanh Province.

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ラタン製品パイロットプロジェクトで、新製品「パーカオ」（ラオスのちゃぶ台）ができました。ご購入は、ビエンチャンのCoolaoか、2010年7月～8月にサバナケットで開催されるナイトマーケットで。

このパーカオの特徴は、ラタン100％の手しごと（ふつうは竹）、そしてなんといってもお盆が「取り外し式」になっていること。ランチョンマットとしても使えて、簡単に水洗いもできるので清潔。作っているのは、サラワン県ラコンペン郡ベンダーン村の生産者グループです。

ラタン製品は、ラオスの伝統的な手工芸品で、ラオスでの日々の生活必需品として使われています。サラワン県のベンダーン村は、ラタン製品の村として広く知られています。

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