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| A boy walks on parched land on the outskirts of Phnom Penh last year. Photograph: Hong Menea/Phnom Penh Post |
Friday, 29 June 2012
Kim Yuthana
The Phnom Penh Post
Despite the woes brought on by 2011’s flood-riddled Year of the Dragon, officials at the National Committee for Disaster Management yesterday expressed concern that if some of those Dragon-like rains fail to appear in the next week, the Kingdom’s crops will suffer.
Anxiety about a potential drought began this week as reports began to filter into the NCDM from north and northeastern provinces that a lack of rain in the past month had already begun to cause damage to rice seedlings and crops.
Keo Vy, deputy director of the Department of Information at the NCDM, said yesterday that it was too early too call conditions a “severe drought”, but that some provinces were beginning to face difficulties with bad rain patterns and that the next week would be crucial.
According to Vy, Battambang, Pursat and Pailin are reaching a critical point in a poor rainfall pattern that will damage crops if it continues.
“We wait and see, and we are worried if there is no rain for about one week or 10 days more, it will affect their crops,” he said, adding he could not say definitively what sort of damage had already been caused to crops or what other provinces were facing similar difficulties.
Vy said the expected rains were being thrown off-kilter by unusual weather patterns that have caused storms in some areas and a lack of rain in others.
Pursat province’s Bakan district governor, Sao Saroeun, said yesterday there had been scant rainfall in the district for more than a month, creating problems for rice crops in some communes.
“We are concerned over the rain problem, but will seek intervention [from nearby areas to] pump water to save their rice as much as possible if there is no rain in a short period to come,” Saroeun said.
Um Rina, director of Department of Water Resources and Meteorology, declined to comment as he was busy in a meeting.
However, Keo Vy said he had high hopes for a weather turnaround, as the Ministry of Water Resources and Meteorology recently announced a prediction of heavy rains throughout the country over the coming weeks.
4 comments:
Keep cutting the trees and killing any activist who protect the forest have been one of this Yuon's slave policy.
It will not matter to Ah Kwack and his clan because they have money to last for 2000 years.
Ah Kwack,
You have done an excellent job for your master (Yuon). Your master will keep you in power until you chet Roy.
worry? well, perhaps it's a wake up call for cambodia to start manage and control the available water resources better in the future, really. for me, it is mismanagement and lack of technological know-how that cause the worry in cambodia. i think if cambodia start managing the water resource better, we can alleviate this worry once and for all, really. maybe cambodia ought to go back to handle cambodia's hydrological sources better like during the angkor civilization, we know from record and history that one of angkor power came from their ability to control and manage water supply for everything they need to support the khmer empire then. so again, that's what cambodia should specialize in again to alleviate that worry like drought, etc, really. how? keep looking for ways to better managing that resource whether the use of new technology, building for canals, irrigation, using machineries, etc, etc... i mean the list is endless, really. start thinking, cambodia!
i think when it comes cambodia natural resources, it takes education and training to make everyone in cambodia aware of the importance of good management of our natural resources in cambodia, really. the more people undertand, the more they are willing to participate in the protecting, conserving, preserving, sustaining and managing cambodia's natural resources like waters, rivers, lakes, forests, mountains, plants and animals in cambodia, i think. trainings and education will make people aware of the benefits they and the country get from helping to maintain khmer natural resources, etc...
When the Cambodia govt,high officials,and low leaders are
unjust and evil,so they all are
greedy and blind.
The three Khmer leaders are
uneducated people.They are
following the Vietnamese advisers
who are telling them what to do
and how to do it.
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