Villagers demand dam open its sluice gate

14 July 2014
The Cambodia Daily
Agricultural management systems and technologies / Agricultural production / Agriculture and fishing / Disaster preparedness and emergency response policy and administration / Disasters / Drought / Government / Human rights / Irrigation and water management / Provincial and local governments / Rice / Social development
Chan Sophal / Chinese aid / Guangdong Foreign Construction Company / Kompong Prieng commune / Raing Kesei commune

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 farmlands, villagers and officials said. With the rainy season just beginning, about 1,000 hectares of rice crop in Kompong Prieng and Raing Kesei communes have already been damaged by drought. …

 Ben Sokhean
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