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Sunday 30 September 2012

Cambodian vegetable farmers forced to compete with Vietnamese rivals


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PHNOM PENH, 30 September 2012 (Cambodia Herald) - Cambodian vegetable farmers say they are being forced to compete with more efficient farmers in Vietnam who use farming techniques to make their vegetables grow faster.

Farmers in Sambork Meas, a village on the Mekong River in Mokkompul commune in Bakkeng district in Kandal province, say massive imports of vegetables from Vietnam are shaking their incomes.

The farmers grow lettuce, cabbage, eggplant, kailan, ginger and other vegetables on their own land or land leased from others.

A farmer identified as Chany, who grows vegetables on leased land, said imports were eroding her prices.

"I find it hard to sell these vegetables as there are more imports from Vietnam than our local produce which reduces the prices of our vegetables," she said.

Chany said she earned 800,000 to one million riel from her 27 patches of cabbages which take a month to grow. Her 37 beds of gingers yield 700,000 to one million riel. The vegetables are harvested about seven times a year.

"I earn my income from these vegetables. If I don't make a profit, I have to borrow money from the micro-finance center and have to pay high interest rates," she said.

"I beg Cambodians not to look down on our local produce," she​​ said. "They should feel sorry for us farmers."

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Buy sh!t from Yuon not healthy sh!t if you eat Yuon vegetables you'll get sick and dies,Yuon use chemical to grow their crops,you eat Yuon vegetables you eat its fertilizer or chemicals.Buy local produce safe and healthy,don't buy Yuon produce,don't eat its fertilizer...

Yobal Khmer

Anonymous said...

We import fertilizers from Youns too, the problem is our farmers are not doing large scale farming like they do.

Anonymous said...

the other problem is these damned FTA and ELC that is really robbing our farmers.

Anonymous said...

and BS to the khmer Government.