Agricultural NGO to Become a Cooperative

The Cambodian Center for Study and Development in Agriculture (Cedac) said yesterday that it was undertaking measures to change its status from an NGO to a cooperative, a move that will ease the organization of donor money and push it to become more profit orientated by 2022. Yang Saing Koma, Cedac’s president, said the organization would restructure its operations over the course of the next 10 years by training 100,000 rice farmers nationwide in more advanced agricultural techniques in the hope that they become more productive and profitable. …