Dwindling water supplies put dry-season rice haul in danger
Dry-season rice farmers in some areas west of the Tonle Sap River and in eastern provinces are appealing to the government for help as the reservoirs they rely on for irrigation are drying up faster than usual, farmers and officials said yesterday. Officials at the ministries of water resources and agriculture also said they were intervening quickly to provide pumps so that water could be pumped into rice fields. San Vanty, under-secretary of state at the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, told the Post that more than 20,000 hectares of dry-season rice fields were lacking water…
