Agriculture
Agricultural management systems and technologies
Amid drought, farmers scuffle over water
Dozens of drought-hit farmers from two districts in Banteay Meanchey province scuffled on Saturday night after one group blocked a canal leading from a shared reservoir, preventing water from flowing to the other community. ...
Ben Sokhean
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/amid-drought-farmers-scuffle-over-water-89476/
Despite drought, crops will come – but at a cost
This year is no different from last year and many of the previous years for the residents of Krong Stung Sen in Kampong Thom province. Rain has been scarce, and rice growers must pay to pump water from the state-owned ditches into their rice paddies. ...
Pav Suy
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/13457/despite-drought--crops-will-come-----but-at-a-cost/
Clock ticks on rice harvest
As el niño continues to buffet Cambodia, the next two weeks could be crucial in determining whether the Kingdom will suffer from a smaller-than-usual rice harvest and potential food shortages, experts said yesterday. According to Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries general director So Khan ...
Sarah Taguiam
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/clock-ticks-rice-harvest
Mechanized farming on the rise
Machines are steadily replacing people in Cambodian agriculture but buyers need more financial and technical support. ...
Igor Kossov
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/13233/mechanized-farming-on-the-rise/
Cambodia’s micro-climate is changing
The heavy rains forecast to wash over Phnom Penh this weekend will come too late for farmers in rice paddies here, 165 km north of the capital. ...
Igor Kossov and Pav Suy
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/13087/cambodia---s-micro-climate-is-changing/
PH to ink agriculture, food cooperation agreement with Cambodia
The Philippines’ Department of Agriculture (DA) is working on the details of a technical cooperation agreement with the Kingdom of Cambodia. Specifically, the agreement would promote technical cooperation and information exchange in food and agriculture, said DA Secretary Proceso Alcala, who met with Cambodian Agriculture Minister ...
Rappler.com News Staff
http://bit.ly/1aMBxIE
PH to ink agriculture, food cooperation agreement with Cambodia
The Philippines’ Department of Agriculture (DA) is working on the details of a technical cooperation agreement with the Kingdom of Cambodia. Specifically, the agreement would promote technical cooperation and information exchange in food and agriculture, said DA Secretary Proceso Alcala, who met with Cambodian Agriculture Minister ...
Rappler.com News Staff
http://bit.ly/1aMBxIE
Rice Federation may rely on banks, gov’t for capital
The Cambodian Rice Federation (CRF) plans to borrow at least $400,000 for international marketing campaigns if it fails to meet its goal of raising $777,000 for the plans through imposing export fees on its members, the organization’s president said Friday at CRF’s annual conference. ...
Kang Sothear
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/business/rice-federation-may-rely-on-banks-govt-for-capital-77548/
Cambodia launches No Pesticide Day campaign
A campaign for No Pesticide Day was held in eastern Cambodia’s Kratie province on Thursday with an appeal for relevant agencies to take part in the abolishment of the use of extremely dangerous pesticides. ...
Global Post News Staff
http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/xinhua-news-agency/141211/cambodia-launches-no-pesticide-day-campaign
Farmers air their agriculture concerns
A lack of irrigation, rising costs of production and finding new markets to sell their produce are problems that plague Cambodian farmers, attendees at the annual National Farmers Forum were told yesterday. Organised by the Council for Agricultural and Rural Development at the Council of Ministers ...
Chan Muyhong
http://phnompenhpost.com/business/farmers-air-their-agriculture-concerns
Resintech to tap into rubber plantation with joint venture in Cambodia
Resintech Bhd, a local Polyethylene and poly vinyl chloride (PVC) pipe manufacturer, will tap into the rubber plantation sector in a bid to diversify its business segment given the healthy outlook on the rubber industry. Resintech’s managing director Datuk Teh Kim Poo said that according to ...
Smartphone software to help rice farmers
An international agriculture NGO is preparing to roll out a nationwide project in partnership with computer-chip maker Intel whereby more than 25,000 farmers will be able to receive real-time advice on farming methods via a smartphone app. The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) piloted the ...
Kang Sothear and George Styllis
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/business/smartphone-software-to-help-rice-farmers-67162/
Hun Sen again stresses need to develop irrigation systems
Prime Minister Hun Sen used a speech at a food security seminar Monday to once again stress the need for Cambodia to develop modern irrigation facilities to better exploit the land and meet growing food requirements. Speaking from his office building in Phnom Penh, Mr. Hun ...
Hul Reaksmey
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/hun-sen-again-stresses-need-to-develop-irrigation-systems-66810/
Villagers demand dam open its sluice gate
More than 100 villagers in Battambang province’s Sangke district whose rice crops are threatened by drought protested twice last week, calling on local authorities to force the Chinese company building an irrigation dam in the area to open the sluice gate to flood the parched ...
Ben Sokhean
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/villagers-demand-dam-open-its-sluice-gate-63941/
Cambodia must to strengthen its agriculture
Cambodia has accelerated its agricultural growth dramatically over the last several years, but agricultural sector in this developing country still depends on its neighboring countries. What are the reasons behind this dependence? During these past years, many businessmen, both foreign and local, are investing a large ...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://www.thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/detail/1?page=11&token=NjBhMmRmZDM0Yjg
Battambang farmers desperate for local river water
With barely a drop of rain falling on their parched fields, Battambang farmers are pleading with a construction company to stop blockading the local river so their recently planted crops don’t dry out. The Asian Development Bank-funded bridge connecting Battambang and Banteay Meanchey has blocked the ...
Laignee Barron and Mom Kunthear
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/battambang-farmers-desperate-local-river-water
NGOs lobby China, companies over Sesan dam
A group of 15 local and international rights groups Tuesday sent a slew of letters to the Chinese government and companies involved in the Lower Sesan II hydropower dam in Stung Treng province seeking a halt to dam construction due to serious environmental and social ...
Simon Henderson
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/ngos-lobby-china-companies-over-sesan-dam-59807/
Cambodia to rear prawns in ‘third water’
Cambodian farmers will open three prawn farms this summer in the mountain region using Japanese technique of ‘third water’ for creating artificial river and seawater The artificial water is a blend of fresh water and a carefully measured mix of minerals, including salts of sodium, potassium ...
Far Eastern Agriculture News Staff
http://www.fareasternagriculture.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=3463:cambodia-to-rear-prawns-in-third-water&catid=1080&Itemid=97
Chinese-funded agricultural park inaugurated in Cambodia
A Chinese-funded agricultural park has been inaugurated in Banteay Meanchey province in northwestern Cambodia. Banteay Meanchey provincial governor Kousom Saroeuth and Xiao Yi, head of international relations office of the Department of Agriculture of China’s Yunnan province,jointly unveiled the Friendship Park of Agricultural Science and Techniques ...
People's Daily Online News Staff
http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/business/n/2014/0522/c90778-8730855.html
Villagers’ crops destroyed over land dispute
Representatives of a community locked in a land dispute with a Vietnamese company in Kratie province returned home from Phnom Penh late Tuesday after failing to garner support from Prime Minister Hun Sen, while an official at the company said it had begun destroying villagers’ ...
Aun Pheap
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/villagers-crops-destroyed-over-land-dispute-58183/
Belarus minister to inaugurate tractor plant next week
Belarusian Foreign Minister Vladimir Makei is to attend the inauguration of a tractor assembly in Cambodia next week, according to the Belarusian Telegraphic Agency. “There are plans to discuss a wide range of issues of the bilateral agenda with the emphasis on the prospects of ...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://www.thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/detail/1?page=13&token=NmI2MjQyOWVkMTI
Siam Kubota launches Cambodia, Laos units
Siam Kubota Corporation Co Ltd is set to expand its business by opening subsidiaries in Cambodia and Laos as part of its preparation for the launch of the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) in 2015. Siam Kubota has invested a total of Bt68 million in the two ...
Erich Parpart
http://www.nationmultimedia.com/business/Siam-Kubota-launches-Cambodia-Laos-units-30228172.html
Construction of Belarus tractor assembly plant in Cambodia nearing completion
The progress in the project to build the Belarus tractor assembly plant in Cambodia was discussed in a meeting between Belarusian Ambassador to Russia Igor Petrishenko and Ambassador of the Kingdom of Cambodia to Russia Thay Vanna, BelTA learnt from the press service of the ...
BelTA News Staff
http://news.belta.by/en/news/econom?id=739642
Royal Group makes deal during PM’s official visit
A Royal Group subsidiary has signed a deal with two Vietnamese firms to import fertiliser, a senior official with the company said yesterday. Among several deals agreed to during Prime Minister Hun Sen’s trip to Vietnam this weekend, Nitrogen Chemicals and Fertilizer Cambodia Ltd, the subsidiary ...
Chan Muy Hong
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/royal-group-makes-deal-during-pm%E2%80%99s-official-visit