Touch Yuthea
The Mekong Times
A five-year project aimed at improving the livelihoods of poor farmers in southern Cambodia has had a positive impact on the economy, according to Yang Saing Koma, director of the Center for Studies and Development of Cambodian Agriculture (CEDAC).
Yang Saing Koma made the conclusion Thursday in Phnom Penh at a workshop aimed at providing information about the project to government agencies and NGOs.
The project cost approximately US$1.8 million. “We have helped poor farmers from 14,200 families to improve their ability to support their families … This is a great achievement,” he said. “We have noticed that before one family could only earn around 1.4 million riel [around US$350] a year. However … people’s revenues have increased to 2.6 million riel [around US$650] a year, or an increase of around 80 percent.”
CEDAC also strengthened the capacity of farmers to transport their products to markets and to collect revenues for the future expansion of their businesses in communities of 192 targeted villages CEDAC was working on, he said.
The project offered agricultural services and resources through direct support from NGOs, an unidentified ADB representative said. “The project also emphasized the participation of rural women in income-generating activities.”
The project took place in five targeted provinces – Kampong Cham, Prey Veng, Svay Rieng, Kampong Chhnang and Takeo. “If such a project is expanded to other provinces, it will be able to further improve more rural people’s living standard through incomes [they earn] and reduce the gap between the rich and the poor,” Ith Nody, undersecretary of state of the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, said at the workshop.
The project was a joint project between Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries and CEDAC. It was financially supported by the Japan Fund for Poverty Reduction through Asian Development Bank.
Yang Saing Koma made the conclusion Thursday in Phnom Penh at a workshop aimed at providing information about the project to government agencies and NGOs.
The project cost approximately US$1.8 million. “We have helped poor farmers from 14,200 families to improve their ability to support their families … This is a great achievement,” he said. “We have noticed that before one family could only earn around 1.4 million riel [around US$350] a year. However … people’s revenues have increased to 2.6 million riel [around US$650] a year, or an increase of around 80 percent.”
CEDAC also strengthened the capacity of farmers to transport their products to markets and to collect revenues for the future expansion of their businesses in communities of 192 targeted villages CEDAC was working on, he said.
The project offered agricultural services and resources through direct support from NGOs, an unidentified ADB representative said. “The project also emphasized the participation of rural women in income-generating activities.”
The project took place in five targeted provinces – Kampong Cham, Prey Veng, Svay Rieng, Kampong Chhnang and Takeo. “If such a project is expanded to other provinces, it will be able to further improve more rural people’s living standard through incomes [they earn] and reduce the gap between the rich and the poor,” Ith Nody, undersecretary of state of the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, said at the workshop.
The project was a joint project between Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries and CEDAC. It was financially supported by the Japan Fund for Poverty Reduction through Asian Development Bank.
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