Boosting of resin production a way to increase rural incomes
Environmental groups that gathered at the Himawari Hotel in Phnom Penh on Friday said that tens of thousands of rural Cambodians could benefit from the development of the country's resin industry. At a conference held by the Non-Timber Forest Products Exchange Program for South and Southeast Asia and attended by the WWF, participants said that increasing the production of resin could play a vital role in protecting the livelihoods of forest dwellers, many of whom belong to indigenous groups and are based in Cambodia's northeastern provinces...
