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just a brief return to the original subject- anyone who has spent any time in the provinces will surely realize that a great portion of the year sees bone dry conditions. about a third of the country has ground water heavily contaminated with arsenic; an expensive proposition to remove it.

even the areas that formerly had irrigation that developed over a thousand years are mostly now unserved by the canals set up for rice production due to the carpet bombing during the American war with Vietnam, though this is slowly being repaired primarily by money from Japan.

it is difficult for any broadscale agriculture to exist without water.

deforestation of the highlands and increasing damming on the Mekong resulting in lower water levels along many of the traditional canal head stocks are continuing to exacerbate the problem.
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frank lee bent wrote: Mon Feb 27, 2017 4:05 am just a brief return to the original subject- anyone who has spent any time in the provinces will surely realize that a great portion of the year sees bone dry conditions. about a third of the country has ground water heavily contaminated with arsenic; an expensive proposition to remove it.

even the areas that formerly had irrigation that developed over a thousand years are mostly now unserved by the canals set up for rice production due to the carpet bombing during the American war with Vietnam, though this is slowly being repaired primarily by money from Japan.

it is difficult for any broadscale agriculture to exist without water.

deforestation of the highlands and increasing damming on the Mekong resulting in lower water levels along many of the traditional canal head stocks are continuing to exacerbate the problem.
Yes Frank, Cambodia is a desert with poisoned water everywhere and nothing could have been done in the 30+ years of HE's rule. It should really have that yellow and black police tape running round its borders. "Do Not Cross This Line"

You do realize you talk about dams and lack of water in the same paragraph?

The Greeks, Romans, Egyptians and Harrapans managed to irrigate their lands some 3000+ years ago. Cambodia has got a bit of catching up to do.

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Mr Curious wrote: Mon Feb 27, 2017 3:03 am And you know...once they see someone being successful with a practice they'll all imitate it no?
Or shut it down.

I reckon it's like Vietnam used to be here. It all has to come from the top. A small man cannot advise a bigger man. The Viets lost countless battles against the French forces because the Viet commanders were so full of themselves with unbelievable conceit, to western eyes, that they wouldn't take any news handed up to them from the battle field. It wasn't until they realized and changed this aspect that they started winning.

It was the US that trained Giap in the forests of northern Vietnam.

Cambodia will never wake-up and smell the contaminated coffee until HE, and most probably his sons, are gone.
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Along the same lines, Cambodia is also importing a lot of meat, including pork.

Meat imports rack up $100M tab
Cambodians spent over $100 million on imported meat last year, further widening the gap of domestic supply as local producers failed to capture the lucrative protein market, a government official said yesterday.

Lor Reaksmey, spokesman for the Ministry of Agriculture, said Cambodia’s heavy dependence on foreign imports to supply the 280,000 tonnes of meat consumed in the Kingdom last year was a missed potential for domestic production.

“Cambodians spend a lot of money to supply meat to consumers and to bring in feed to meet market demands,” he said. “If we could meet the demand with our own domestic supply, it would add a huge amount of revenue to our local businesses.”

He said that according to the ministry’s figures, domestic supply of buffalo was 520,000 heads last year, a 6 percent decrease compared to 2015. Meanwhile, the Kingdom recorded a total of 2.9 million heads of cattle, a 3 percent decrease, while pig farming increased by 2.9 percent to 2.4 million hogs.
However, he added, despite having sufficient stock to cover domestic demand for meat consumption, only 1.3 million livestock were butchered last year, with a large share of the demand satisfied instead by imports...

Srun Poav, director of the Cambodian Pig Farmers Association, said that the local pork industry currently had the capacity to meet 50 to 60 percent of market demand, supplying 3,000 of the 5,000 hogs sold to the market daily. However, he said the market was dogged by cheap, low-quality imports that lack any government oversight concerning health and hygiene.
“We could meet a large portion of market demand, but many pig farmers are close to going bankrupt because imports make farmers lose profits,” he said.“The government pays no attention to our concerns over the domestic market and prices continue to go down.”
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Ministry to begin $20M plan for domestic vegetables
Fri, 2 June 2017
Implementation of a previously announced three-year $20 million programme to increase local vegetable and fragrant rice production will begin next month to help boost domestic supply and reduce imports, an agriculture official said yesterday.

The goal of the project is to increase local production of vegetables by 160 tonnes per day and production of 500,000 tonnes of paddy rice a year, Kean Sophea, deputy director of the Department of Horticulture and Subsidiary Crops at the Agricultural Ministry, said.

To date, 2,060 farmers and 260 rice cooperatives have been recruited to the programme and they will start planting next month.

“So far we have trained the farmers to better understand how to cultivate their crops and improve both their farming and technical skills,” he said. “The farmers will start to farm the vegetables in July and begin to supply the market a month later.”

Vegetable production will focus on 13 priority crops including lettuce, chili, bok choy, tomato, cucumber and green melon, Sophea said. While the rice crops from the programme will be solely meant for exports...
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Wait, what? The farmers will plant a crop, and then harvest it a month later? What white-man magic is this?
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StroppyChops wrote: Mon Jun 05, 2017 10:27 pm Wait, what? The farmers will plant a crop, and then harvest it a month later? What white-man magic is this?


I didn't believe it myself, but after consuming copious amounts of fire-water supplied by the chief I was utterly convinced.
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John Bingham wrote: Mon Jun 05, 2017 11:37 pm
StroppyChops wrote: Mon Jun 05, 2017 10:27 pm Wait, what? The farmers will plant a crop, and then harvest it a month later? What white-man magic is this?


I didn't believe it myself, but after consuming copious amounts of fire-water supplied by the chief I was utterly convinced.
Seems totally legit, send me one of everything on consignment.
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Cambodian farmers urged to boost production

Cambodians consumed an average of 540 tonnes of vegetables a day last year, while the country was only able to produce just 400 tonnes of vegetables a day in 2018 according to a recent report from the Ministry of Agriculture, who urged farmers to boost production to meet rapidly growing domestic demand.

Veng Sakhon, the Minister of Agriculture, on Friday said vegetable production has increased substantially in recent months, but added that the country is still reliant on imports from from Vietnam, Thailand, and China reported khmertimeskh.com

The minister called for greater production of local vegetables that meet quality and safety standards.

“Due to strong economic growth, an increase in living standards and the influx of tourists, demand for quality and safe vegetables is rising fast,” he said.

In September 2017, a government project to boost the production of chemical-free vegetables took-off. The project, called Boosting Food Project, has a budget of $20 million.

It is being implemented in Takeo, Kandal, Prey Veng, Kampong Speu, Kampong Cham, Pursat, Kampong Chhnang, Battambang, Siem Reap, and Tboung Khmum.

In the next five years Cambodia plans to increase vegetable production by about 20 to 30 percent. They are focusing on building irrigation infrastructure to produce vegetables all year round.

The Ministry of Agriculture recently launched a national seed strategy, which aims to regulate and standardise the seed industry to protect farmers and bolster the seed market.

The seed strategy, the first of its kind for the country, outlines a set of national strategic actions for the production and marketing of seeds for rice and other major agricultural crops.

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