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Fake fertiliser cuts crop yields

1 March 2013
The Phnom Penh Post
Agricultural production / Agriculture and fishing
agricultural policies / Cambodia Development Resource Institute (CDRI) / Cambodian Centre for Study and Development in Agriculture / CDRI / Chemical fertiliser / commercialisation / crackdown / crop yields / distribution company / fake fertiliser / Farmers / Fertilizer / Forestry and Fisheries / importers / independent research / Lim Bun Heng Trading Co / Lim Chheng Lay / Middle Mekong region / Ministry of Agriculture / mobile operators / preliminary research / Provincial Department of Agriculture / Rice Farming / short-weight bags / small retailers / supply chain / Takeo Province / traders / vice-chairman / Yang Saing Koma

FARMERS’ crop yields are being undercut by unregistered middlemen selling fake fertiliser, and government efforts to combat this have proved ineffective, according to independent research from the Cambodia Development Resource Institute (CDRI). CDRI’s preliminary research, conducted as part of a larger program investigating agricultural policies for ...

http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013030161683/Business/fake-fertiliser-cuts-crop-yields.html

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