Low rainfall affects Cambodia rice production
More than 80 percent of Cambodian people are dependent on agriculture, especially those in countryside. Farming rice in Cambodia mostly depends on the rainwater rather than the irrigation systems. This year, some areas, which do not received the minimum amount of rain needed for rice cultivation, are causing problems for the rice farmers to delay [...]
Increasing rice prices and selling farmland hitting the poor
Since the early this month until now, the rice price is remarkably increasing in Phnom Penh. Phnom Penh residents have been buying and stocking rice. All type of rice price is increasing too fast and making Cambodian people worried. The price of rice is going up across the nation by more than 20 percent, comparing [...]