Thursday, 01 May 2008By Soun Samnang
The Mekong Times
“Prime Minister Hun Sen did not talk about farmers’ difficulties because farmers are currently borrowing money from banks or from their neighbors in order to sow crops. Therefore, the farmers who are growing crops now will not be able to sell their products for profit, but only to eat. Farmers buy fertilizers at a high price to farm; they cannot profit ... On the contrary, selling crops … has made farmers’ living standards deteriorate as goods such as fertilizers and gasoline increase in price” - SRP MP Yim SovannAs early thunderstorms usher in this year’s monsoon season, Prime Minister Hun Sen yesterday encouraged farmers to focus on rainy-season crops to cash in on the high price of agricultural products.
Growing wet-season rice, corn, potatoes and other staples will allow Cambodia to raise its profile in local and international markets and command high prices for home-grown agricultural products, the premier said.
Hun Sen encouraged farmers to try their best, adding that Kompong Cham – the most populated Cambodian province with nearly two million inhabitants and Hun Sen’s birthplace – has great potential for agriculture.
“The current global food crisis is an opportunity for Cambodian farmers to grow crops and increase local production,” he told attendants of a Kompong Cham pagoda inauguration. “Even though the soaring rice price has affected people in cities, it helps the 80 percent of [Cambodian people who are] farmers to sell their products at a higher price.”
Yim Sovann, a Sam Rainsy Party lawmaker, questioned the premier’s remarks, saying the government should study the effect of inflation on farmers.
“Prime Minister Hun Sen did not talk about farmers’ difficulties because farmers are currently borrowing money from banks or from their neighbors in order to sow crops. Therefore, the farmers who are growing crops now will not be able to sell their products for profit, but only to eat. Farmers buy fertilizers at a high price to farm; they cannot profit,” he said. “On the contrary, selling crops … has made farmers’ living standards deteriorate as goods such as fertilizers and gasoline increase in price.”
However, Prime Minister Hun Sen was optimistic, citing the government’s recent authorization of broken rice exports to countries such as Senegal as an economic victory. He said Cambodia will export more rice to other countries as global rice supplies run short.
19 comments:
Dirt poor Cambodian farmers are living in a dream world! Ahhahhaha
Why dirt poor Cambodian farmers always need to jump when AH HUN SEN is talking about chicken shit!
Here is the logic!
If the price of rice go up and the cost of land to produce rice will also go up! Now that not even including the high gas price use to move machinery and the high cost fertilizer!
So where is the profit for dirt poor Cambodian farmers? Show me the beef!
Don't listen to Pouh Ah Jkout (SRP). This is the best year for farmer ever.
since when Ah kwack care about poor farmers?
Ah kvack tries to draw farmers' attention for their vote.
Did ah kwack know that the World food programm cut the free breakfast meal from Cambodian poor kids due to high price of rice? Ah kwack need to take that responsibility, not just BULLSHITTING.
This is the best farmer year in Khmer history. For more where that came from, VOTE CPP!
To 2:13PM
How is it the best year? The land cost too much, the fertilizer cost too much, the gasoline cost too much for transportation, the food cost too much...
Dirt poor Cambodian people are working for free and still put food on the table!
warnig to khmers if you vote for THMil C CHOY KHNEAR (CPP) you have to learn the vietnamese first
Majority of Cambodian farmers [+90%] are family-oriented farming and still sticking to traditional way of cutlivating rice "Human and cattles", therefore to quote the high fuel price in such practice is unrealistic as claimed by Yim Sovann.
Yes, do recognize that the price of Urea and other compound fertilizers which might be used to enhance crop productions are expensive as Cambodia doens't produce them at all except the Phosphate from Kampot.
Subject to water available and needed to irrigate the paddies, farmers shall take the opportunity to increase rice cultivation and cask in on the high price of rice and demand.
Government shall also look into and enforce CARDI to provide other extension services such as soil testing, cultivation techniques, seeds at a fixed and low fees that our farmers are financial able to afford to use their service of it is not free of charge services.
All farmers will vote for PM Hun Sen because they are rich from their lands and their crops too.
My beloved 4:14PM!
Your writing is effectively magnificent and intellectual thinking and critic about Khmer farmers, unfortunately I think therefore I am still undoubtedly believing that you might be never lived in Srok Khmer. Evidently and statistically speaking, 20% of the farmers don't even have their own cows and farm land, they annually work for the rich farmers, just barely have enough food to eat.
A few farmers who are living from Battanbang to the Thai border, they have pleasantly exchanged their cows or water buffalos with Thai's farming machine. These folks now desperately need the gasolin in order to farm. In Short, I am hopeful that I am completely wrong, because according to my dull observation and illiterate comprehension, CPP's parasites have never passionately any desire to help the poor and miserable Khmers!
You idiot (7:51), if you can't afford to pay for fuel, all you have to do is trade your machine back for cow and buffalo. Is that too hard for you to comprehend.
Ah Kwak HunSen is instructing the citizens to pump up the rice products with Animal powers. What a freaking idiot?
You need roads, farm equipments to increase productivity, you MF you.
Wake up, and suck a Hok ding-dong!
I was visiting my cousin in Battambang just past January 2008. They crops has low yield due to poor soil nutrients, and the rice kernels wilted from excessive heat from the effects of the weather patterns.
Global warming! And the forest management by ah kwak HunSen clan create havoc on the ecosystem. What a Dick to ask the Farmers to increase the product, when he can't even comprent 2+2!
Everything is so fake with the CCP. Just look at Khem Veasna. He's the adopted brother of Sar Kheng. Sar Kheng is adopted son of the mother of Khem Veasna (Kaun Thur).
So the CCP give the money to Khem Veasna to create a party and speaking and critizing the CCP to show that in the Cambodia We have a free speeches.
Khem Veasna, no goal for cambodians!
We can't win the communist in Cambodia right now!!!
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If govermant are good care khmer farmer ,they should do such kinds as due *
must be limited to sale rice to local as 50 kg to pice low as all level.
if 50 kg up must pay tax or export have to finger up the price international .
monitor all company and vender must register with authority .
if administration can do all these possible ,khmer farmer will be grown up each family and the root of our tree will get fine and well.
My beloved 8:04PM!
Thank you very much for honestly and openly calling me,"Idiot".
Da word,"Idiot," is pridefully and perfectly suitable for me, 'cause I am illiterate.
Since my uncivilized comprehension is mentally retarded, therefore I am so yerningly wishing that you are not aggressively enraging nor adhoring me for asking one simple question... Do you think that the Thai folks willingly trade their cows and water buffaloes back to Khmers, if they were intentionally getting rid of their old farming machines at the first place?
Don't listen to Pouh Ah Jkout CPP( Communist Pro youn Party). This is the Worst year for the poor ever.
Vote CPP and everyone wins.
Vote SRP and everyone will go back to Year-Zero.
Vote SRP and everyone wins.
Vote CPP (Communist Pro youn Party ) and everyone will become youn servant like ah psychopath Hun Sen.
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