Cambodian News

Countries who are unable to produce enough food for themselves are scouring the world for cheap farmland to grow food and export it home, reports Nick Paton Walsh.
Never mind the food miles: when prices are soaring around the world some countries have found a way of keeping their own consumers happy – farming out their [...]

The small scale of pig farms, high pig-food prices, the often steep fees charged by slaughterhouses, smuggling of pigs from Vietnam undermining competition or the prices of pork meat, volatile and unpredictable as a consequence. Reasons for the weakness in the Cambodian pig industry are aplenty, as the country currently has to import the majority [...]

PHNOM PENH, Jan. 4 (Xinhua) – Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen will start his maiden visit to the Middle East region soon, Information Minister and government spokesman Khieu Kanharith said here on Sunday.
The premier will visit Qatar, Kuwait and other countries in the region after Jan. 10 in order to strengthen the [...]

KUALA LUMPUR (AFP) — Resource-hungry nations are snapping up huge tracts of agricultural land in poor Asian nations, in what activists say is a “land grab” that will worsen poverty and malnutrition.
Global trends including high prices for oil and commodities, the biofuels boom, and now the sweeping downturn, are spurring import-reliant countries to take action [...]

PHNOM PENH, Jan. 2 (Xinhua) – A well-known expert has called on the Cambodian government to devote more resources to the rural sector in efforts to mitigate the effects of the global economic crisis, the Phnom Penh Post reported on Friday.
While the tourism and garment sectors continue to struggle for access to international markets during [...]

The Chairman of the Cambodian National Assembly’s Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Commission, Chheang Vun, made the call while meeting with Vietnamese Ambassador to Cambodia Nguyen Chien Thang on Dec. 25.
Chheang Vun said Cambodia boasts large and fertile farmland acreages which are favourable conditions for investment in agriculture.
The move will benefit both nations as it [...]

PHNOM PENH, Dec. 19 (Xinhua) — China topped the list of foreign investing countries in Cambodia in the past 14 years, with total amount reaching 5.707 billion U.S. dollars, national media on Friday quoted official source as saying.
South Korea trailed China with 2.749 billion U.S. dollars, followed by Malaysia with 2.199 billion [...]

Japan announced Thursday nearly $1 million in grants to help improve Cambodian agriculture, health and demining operations.
Of that, more than $165,000 would go toward the rehabilitation of reservoirs and irrigation in Kandal and Takeo provinces; more than $87,000 toward the construction of a science laboratory in Prey Veng province’s Regional Teacher Training Center; more than [...]

PHNOM PENH, Dec. 8 (Xinhua) — Dangerous pesticides pose serious health risks to farmers and consumers, say NGOs and agricultural officials who have rallied for a national ban, national media reported Monday.
Cambodia spends nearly 30 million U.S. dollars on chemical sprays every year, many of which are illegal in the countries where they are manufactured, [...]

November 18, 2008 BANLUNG, Cambodia — A few years ago, this dusty frontier town was little more than a junction of dirt tracks in the jungle, with a handful of wooden buildings and beat-up old cars. Then global crop prices shot up, and Banlung became a boomtown.
Farmers swarmed in and cleared land to plant rubber, [...]