Agriculture and fishing
From pharmaceuticals to palm sugar, helping a country heal
Born in 1953, Hay Ly Eang is the same age as independent Cambodia. But unlike his home country, which was torn apart by war and political conflicts in the decades that followed independence, Mr. Ly Eang managed to avoid much of the turmoil after leaving the ...
Michelle Vachon
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/from-pharmaceuticals-to-palm-sugar-helping-a-country-heal-102907/
Mixed outlook for this year’s catch of trey riel
The season for making prahok, the fermented fish paste that is a staple of the Cambodian diet, has opened this month amid mixed forecasts for the annual catch.Prahok production, which fuels the Kingdom’s largest annual fish harvest, sustains the incomes of thousands of Cambodians, particular ...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/mixed-outlook-years-catch-trey-riel
Local salt revenues drying up
Salt producers in Kep and Kampot say their revenues have plummeted over the last two years as cheaper and better-quality salt from Thailand floods the local market.Bun Baraing, co-director of the Kep-Kampot Salt Producers Community, said local consumers have switched to imported Thai salt, which ...
Cheng Sokhorng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/local-salt-revenues-drying
Rice harvest estimates taken with a grain of salt
New government estimates on this year’s rice production and forecasts for next year’s crop may be overly optimistic, industry experts say, factoring in the impact of a drought that damaged crops and is expected to carry over into the next dry season harvest.The Ministry of ...
Ananth Baliga
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/rice-harvest-estimates-taken-grain-salt
Cambodian mangoes could soon roll to Seoul
The Ministry of Agriculture signed a memorandum of understanding with South Korea yesterday to export Cambodian mangoes and expand its short list of export destinations, a ministry official said. ...
Sor Chandara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/cambodian-mangoes-could-soon-roll-seoul
Give farmers a break: PM
Prime Minister Hun Sen yesterday called on banks and microfinance institutions (MFIs) to suspend loan repayments by borrowers affected by this year’s drought, or either make the loans interest free or cut the rates. ...
May Kunmakara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/18453/give-farmers-a-break--pm/
Kingdom rice production to top 9.2 million tonnes
Cambodia’s total rice production this year will exceed 9.2 million tonnes, according preliminary estimates of rice harvested in 24 provinces and compiled by the Ministry of Agriculture. ...
Post Staff
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/kingdom-rice-production-top-92-million-tonnes
New fisheries office inaugurated in Kep
The Fisheries Administration (FA) plans to strengthen its presence in Kep province with the opening of a new cantonment there, officials announced in an official ceremony yesterday morning.The move comes after what conservationists say has been a steady increase in illegal trawling in Kep Bay, ...
Brent Crane
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/new-fisheries-office-inaugurated-kep
Rubber producers to skip industry event
Local rubber producers yesterday expressed little enthusiasm to attend this year’s Global Rubber Conference, which opens today in Ho Chi Minh City, voicing pessimism about the gloomy market for natural rubber and scepticism on whether the conference would yield any solutions to producers’ pricing problems.Among ...
Sor Chandara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/rubber-producers-skip-industry-event
Grow Asia eyes Cambodian farms
Grow Asia, a multi-stakeholder partnership focused on sustainable and inclusive agriculture in the ASEAN region, is seeking to expand to Cambodia by 2016 to help small-scale farming develop into commercial agriculture and to strengthen the agriculture sector, a senior executive from Grow Asia said. ...
Sok Chan
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/18303/grow-asia-eyes-cambodian-farms/
Rice prices seen gaining ground in Mekong region
A prolonged regional drought is expected to push Thai and Vietnamese rice prices up by 10 to 15 per cent, narrowing the price gap that has kept Cambodian rice exporters from securing major international supply orders, one of the Kingdom’s biggest rice exporters said yesterday. ...
Cheng Sokhorng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/rice-prices-seen-gaining-ground-mekong-region
Parasite blamed for fish deaths in Sihanoukville
Fish farms in Sihanoukville have lost an estimated 100 tonnes of fish to an aquatic parasite infestation in the past five days, Fishery Administration officials said yesterday.The parasite, known as “marine velvet” or Amyloodinaum Ocellatum, feeds on fish tissue – giving it a powdered look ...
Sen David
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/parasite-blamed-fish-deaths-sihanoukville
Tractor tax abolished, but farmers still stuck in a rut
Prime Minister Hun Sen’s announcement on Facebook yesterday that the annual tax on vehicles used by limited-income families, including tractors, would be abolished was met with indifference by small-scale farmers, who said high interest rates on loan were a concern, not the negligible tax assessed ...
Cheng Sokhorng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/tractor-tax-abolished-farmers-still-stuck-rut
The Mekong river stories from the heart of the climate crisis interactive
The fate of 70 million people rests on what happens to the Mekong river. With world leaders meeting in Paris next week for crucial UN climate talks, John Vidal journeys down south-east Asia’s vast waterway – a place that encapsulates some of the dilemmas they ...
Mekong yields first giant catfish of year
One of the largest and rarest freshwater fish in the world was netted by local fishermen near Phnom Penh earlier this month.A two-metre Mekong giant catfish, weighing an estimated 90 to 114 kilos, one of only a handful left of a species that faces extinction, ...
Jamie Elliott
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/mekong-yields-first-giant-catfish-year
Rubber firm vows not to harm forests
Rubber and palm oil giant the Socfin Group has committed to a global “zero-deforestation policy” across Africa and Asia amid a legal dispute with ethnic Bunong communities in Mondulkiri province’s Bousraa commune. ...
Daniel Pye
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/rubber-firm-vows-not-harm-forests
Rice forum aims to strengthen value chain
The Cambodia Rice Federation (CRF) and the Association for SMEs of Cambodia will jointly hold the fifth Cambodia Rice Forum to discuss the future of the country’s rice industry with major stakeholders. ...
Sum Manet
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/17865/rice-forum-aims-to-strengthen-value-chain/
Kampot pepper defying drought fears
The increased cultivation area of Kampot pepper has offset losses due to drought, with farmers of the premium quality peppercorn estimating that production could reach 80 tonnes in the coming harvest, nearly 40 per cent more than last season. The association’s 242 members have planted ...
Cheng Sokhorng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/kampot-pepper-defying-drought-fears
Slight dip in rice yields ‘won’t affect exports’
As the harvest of wet-season rice ends this month, a report from the Ministry of Agriculture says the yield will fall slightly below the target but this will not affect exports. ...
Sok Chan
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/17674/slight-dip-in-rice-yields----won---t-affect-exports---/
New slaughterhouse regulations aim to curb disease
Ahead of the opening of Cambodia’s first modern abattoir, which is slated to begin operations in the near future, a new draft law to regulate animal produce and slaughterhouses was announced on Friday, along with the establishment of a “National Butchers’ Day” to be recognised ...
Sen David
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/new-slaughterhouse-regulations-aim-curb-disease
Mills busy as new rice crop rolls in
Cambodia rice exports saw a small rebound in October, notching up 12 per cent as compared to a year earlier, as harvests from the delayed rainy-season planting began to reach the nation’s rice mills. ...
Ananth Baliga
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/mills-busy-new-rice-crop-rolls
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Sum Manet
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/17402/cambodian-rice-knocked-from-top-spot-this-year/
Mekong dams 'a grave threat to river'
Experts are warning that the Lower Mekong Basin may soon face depleting fish stocks, further erosion of the coastline and rising salinity that will make rice fields uncultivable. An extensive, government- funded study by the Vietnam National Mekong Committee estimates the value of fish from ...
Nirmal Ghosh
http://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/mekong-dams-a-grave-threat-to-river
Illegal fishing busts up 150%: ministry
Fishing crime busts rose 150 per cent during the first nine months of 2015, compared with the same period last year, while anti-forestry crime actions dropped 13 per cent. ...
Taing Vida
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/illegal-fishing-busts-150-ministry