The Vetiver Network International
The Vietnam Vetiver Network
The 6th International Conference on Vetiver
May 5 - 8, 2015
Da Nang, Vietnam
Vetiver System: Empowering Sustainable Development
Thursday 7 May 2015
CONCURRENT SESSION SCHEDULE
CONCURRENT SESSION 1
Bioengineering and Disaster Mitigation
No
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Room 1
Presentations titles
Presenters
RAPPORTEUR:
Narong Chomchalow
1
13.00-13.25
2
13.25-13.50
3
13.50-14.15
4
14.15-14.40
5
14.40-15.05
15.05-15.35
6
15.35-16.00
Vetiver System for Infrastructure Protection in
Vietnam: Some Lessons Learned After 15 years of
Application on the Ho Chi Minh Highway
The uses of vetiver grass for stabilization of
slope, hillsides and degraded areas in Brazil
The application of the vetiver system in
combination with geotechnical remedial measures
for improving the stability of slopes
Laboratory investigation of vetiver root
reinforcement for slope protection
Vetiver and soil traps
Coffee
RAPPORTEUR:
Tran Tan Van
Application of vetiver grass for protection of
railway side slopes in China
Tran Tan Van
Aloisio Pereira
Surapol
Sanguankaeo
Boonrat
Lohwongwattana
Leonel Castro
Xinmin JIANG
7
Engineering characterization of vetiver grass
system for shallow slope stabilization
Apiniti Jotisankasa,
Jason Fox
16.25-16.50
Vetiver Farm: Hawaii, VS Application, a sustainable
Production
16.50-17.15
Application of Vetiver System and Bio-slope
Engineering for Landslide Mitigation in Thailand
Apiniti Jotisankasa
16.00-16.25
8
9
CONCURRENT SESSION 2
Environmental Protection
Room 2
RAPPORTEUR:
Tanapon Phenrat
1
13.00-13.25
Effectiveness of vetiver grass in phytostabilization
and/or phytoremediation of dioxin contaminated
soil at Bien Hoa airbase, Vietnam - An overview
and preliminary result
Ngo Thi Thuy
Huong
2
13.25-13.50
Efficiency of Vetiver for the Phytoremediation of
Contaminated Land in the “Valle Del Sacco” Italy
Benito Castorina
3
13.50-14.15
Vetiver for Mine Rehabilitation Padaeng Zinc
Mine, Mae Sot District, Tak Province, Thailand
Chaiwat
Phadermrod
4
14.15-14.40
Thao Minh Tran
5
14.40-15.05
Capacity of vetiver grass in treating a mixture of
laboratory and domestic wastewater
Boron remediation with vetiver systemn in northern
Chile
15.05-15.35
P. Truong for
S. Ugalde
Coffee
RAPPORTEUR:
Thao Minh Tran
6
15.35-16.00
Mine and associated rehabilitation projects in
Africa and Indian ocean islands
R Nöffke
7
16.00-16.25
The feasibility of utilizing Vetiver root systems as
silt barriers for sediment control of run-off from
open pit mines
D. Baay
Effects of sea water salinity on the growth of
vetiver grass
Doan Chi Cuong,
8
16.25-16.50
CONCURRENT SESSION 3
Soil and Water Conservation in Agricultural Land
Room 3
1
13.00-13.25
2
13.25-13.50
3
13.50-14.15
4
5
RAPPORTEUR:
Malee Nanakorn
Effect of vetiver grass on crop yield and lateritic
soil improvement
Suphasit
Sitthaphanit
The Vetiver Grass Cultivation Campaign and
Promotion for Land Resources Rehabilitation in
Thung Kula RongHai Plain: Case study in
Chumphon-Buri District, Surin Province, Thailand
Assessing nutrient losses from soil erosion under
soil water conservation measures in upland rubber
plantation in northern Thailand
Pinpetch Deelom
14.15-14.40
Study on Vetiver Grass Planting in Problem Soils
and Spatial Database Performed in the Office of
Land Development Area
Juraiporn
Kaewthip
14.40-15.05
Converting Badlands to Good-lands” by including
Vetiver grass as part of ‘Re-Vegetation’ efforts for
Watershed Management in the Micronesian island
of Rota, CNMI
Mohammad
Golabi
15.05-15.35
Coffee
Thanachanok
Khamkajorn
RAPPORTEUR:
Mohammad Golabi
6
15.35-16.00
Kitipong
Kittiwatsopon
Soils and Water Conservation of Waterside of
Srinaun Canal Interacted with Protected Contour
Parkong, Pathio, Chumphon Province Area
CONCURRENT SESSION 4
Socio-Economic Impact on Rural Community
Room 4
15.05-15.35
Coffee
RAPPORTEUR:
Songkiert Tansamrit
Presentations
1
15.35-16.00
Promotion on Planting Vetiver on Upper
Watershed Areas with People Participation
Presenters
Pintip
Thitirojanawat
2
16.00-16.25
3
16.25-16.50
4
Outstanding Dissemination and Application of the
Vetiver System in Peru.
A Social Investment Opportunity for Rural
Communities In Improving Land Degradation
using the Vetiver System
Alois
Kennerknecht
R Nöffke
Extension of vetiver grass planting in Highland
Nanthip
Kanthawong
16.50-17.15
5
17.15-17.40 Development of Textile fibre rom vetiver biomass
15.05-15.35
Keunun
Coffee
CONCURRENT SESSION 5
Research and Innovation
Room 5
RAPPORTEUR:
Dale Rachmeler
Presentations
Presenters
1
13.00-13.25
Diversity of yeasts in vetiver phylloplane in
Thailand and their capability to produce indole-3acetic acid, a plant growth promoter
Savitree Limtong
2
13.25-13.50
Nguyen Xuan
Huong
3
13.50-14.15
4
14.15-14.40
Microbial biodiversity in the rhizosphere of vetiver
grass grown in Quang Nam province and Da Nang
City, Vietnam .
Effects of vetiver cultivated and incorporated into
paddy field on soil quality, rice production and CO2
and CH4 emissions
Management and monitoring
of vetiver grass plantation in Thailand
by using vetiver grass tracking system
5
14.40-15.05
Correlation between vetiver root biomass
with soil organic carbon and CO2 emission in
agricultural area of southern part of Thailand
Kamalapa
Wattanaprapat
15.05-15.35
Coffee
K. Boonsong
Kittima
Sivaarthitkul
RAPPORTEUR:
Savitree Limtong
6
15.35-16.00
Vetiver in California’s Mojave desert. A trial for
application in ecological restoration
M Huffine & D
Price,
7
16.00-16.25
The opportunity of vetiver grass as a feed additive
Dwi Retno
Lukiwati
8
16.25-16.50
9
16.50-17.15
10
17.15-17.40
Salt tolerance evaluation of selected-vetiver under
saline soil
Mattanaporn
Maikami
Study on Carbon Storage and Carbon Balance in
Vetiver Grass Cultivation Areas in Northern
Thailand
Pornpat Nopmalai
Effects of Gamma irradiation on in vitro Culture of
vetiver
Katarut
Chusreeaeom,
CONCURRENT SESSION 6
Other Applications
Room 4B
Presentations
RAPPORTEUR:
Elise Pinner
Application of the vetiver system and bioengineering for preventing soil erosion
Presenters
Prasert SalanlaUmpai
1
13.00-13.25
2
13.25-13.50
Confusion between Chrysopogon nemoralis and
vetiver grass (Chrysopogon zizanioides) at Bo Bo
mountain in Quang Nam province, Vietnam
Doan Chi Cuong,
3
13.50-14.15
Vetiver initiatives in Papua and west Papua,
Indonesia
4
14.15-14.40
Anti-venom potential of aqueous extract of root of
Vetiveria zizanioides (l.)Nash against Echis
carinatus (saw-scaled viper) venom
David Price
&Michael
Cochran
Jayashree
15.05-15.35
Coffee
16.30-18.00
Forum and Final Assessment
ICV7 Narong Chomchalow
Open session
Final assessment and Thanks
Dick Grimshaw and Jim Smyle