PHNOM PENH, Sept. 8 (Xinhua) -- The Asian Development Bank (ADB) will submit next month to its board of directors a proposal for an emergency food aid project following the Cambodian government's request for 38 million U.S. dollars to ensure food security between 2008 and 2011, local newspaper reported Monday.
The project would benefit more than 500,000 people in five provinces and the Tonle Sap river and some poor areas in Phnom Penh, Arjun Goswami, the bank's country representative, was quoted as saying by the Phnom Penh Post.
He said worldwide price hikes for food and fuel have pushed traders to sell their rice to neighboring countries, thus driving down domestic supply.
"Our highest concern, as well as that of the government's, therefore, is to do whatever we can to ensure that the vulnerable segment of the population continues to have affordable access to basic food commodities," Goswami said.
He said that in response to rising food costs the government has established an interministerial National Food Security Taskforce, headed by the Ministry of Economy and Finance, which would provide overall policy guidance and coordination of the project.
The project would benefit more than 500,000 people in five provinces and the Tonle Sap river and some poor areas in Phnom Penh, Arjun Goswami, the bank's country representative, was quoted as saying by the Phnom Penh Post.
He said worldwide price hikes for food and fuel have pushed traders to sell their rice to neighboring countries, thus driving down domestic supply.
"Our highest concern, as well as that of the government's, therefore, is to do whatever we can to ensure that the vulnerable segment of the population continues to have affordable access to basic food commodities," Goswami said.
He said that in response to rising food costs the government has established an interministerial National Food Security Taskforce, headed by the Ministry of Economy and Finance, which would provide overall policy guidance and coordination of the project.
5 comments:
Oh well! This is just another Vietcong slave and Khmer Rouge logic! That is to destroy Cambodia is no loss!
Money, money and money that is what Ah Hun Sen wants the most.
My beloved Khmers!
Yes, indeed, Hun SenVarman desperately wanted more money, 'cause our beloved miserable shrinking country is stable..
50% of the money is going secretly to his master, Youn..
30% to Hun SenVarman, 20% to the CPP's blood-sucking parasites,
and 0% to the people of miserable Khmers!
In the name of Stability, the Hun SenVarman and his CPP's job and power are stable, but suffocatingly speaking the living condition of Khmer people ain't stable!
Hun Sen is no son of a farmer, he a son of a bitch.
Please don't insult the farmers.
no leader in cambodia should make his or her own decision without consulting the gov't like in the past. remember, gov't work and decision is teamwork, everybody has to consult one another in accordance to laws, not one man or woman making decision for the entire country. common, this is not the dark ages anymore like in the past when leaders seem to decision by themself without regards to others like colleagues and other gov't ministries because doing so is dangerous for cambodia, especially when that one leader passes away due to old age or whatever, then chaos and lawlessness follows. i think the new cambodia should avoid that type of system with all cost so we all can be prosperous without interruption even after a leader passes away due to ailment or old age. learn from the history and the dark pasts and make cambodia better because cambodia is more than just about a leader; people in cambodia want a good caring leader, not a narrow-minded individual who wants to make himself or herself a dictator. thank you.
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