Small-scale entrepreneurs have taken a number of the Center’s technologies and developed them into successful rural businesses to boost local smallholder vegetable production. These examples are successful technologies that have been proven to work in East Asia , and may be suitable for farmer organizations, NGOs or other entrepreneurs to apply elsewhere. AVRDC does not provide business development advice, but has tested these technologies to show that they work.

Vegetable grafting
Covered vegetable production
Pheromone traps