CAMBODIA: GLOBAL FOOD CRISIS MAY PAVE WAY FOR FARMING BOOM

Inter Press Service English News Wire | May 20, 2008| | Copyright

Andrew Nette
Inter Press Service English News Wire
05-20-2008
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia, May 19, 2008 (IPS/GIN) -- The Cambodian
government is hoping that the global rise in food prices may give
a boost to this impoverished country's agrarian economy.
But, while Khmer and foreign experts agree that there is
considerable room for Cambodia to improve its production of rice,
fruit, vegetables and other crops, they also say the economic,
physical and geographical challenges are huge.
Even if Cambodia can increase the production of crops such as
rice, doubts exist as to whether small-scale farmers are ...

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