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  • 28 Mar 2022
Battambang’s farming community promotes ‘seeds of life’ tradition

For generations, everyone in Noem Chheang’s family has been a farmer in Battambang.For over 50 years, the farmers have been passing down their centuries of knowledge, experience, and skills on their ‘seeds of life’ on how to plant, harvest, select and store it so that it can be...

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  • 28 Dec 2021
Cambodian farmers hit hard by Covid-19 pandemic, NGOs find

According to a report compiled by three NGOs, 92.2 percent of farmers participating in their survey have had lower incomes due to the Covid-19 outbreak.

Although farmers have been able to grow rice and other crops and raise animals to earn their living in the same manner as before, proble...

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  • 04 Nov 2022
Hundreds Join “Grassroots People’s Assembly” Ahead of Asean Summit

Some 900 activists, informal workers and others gathered in Phnom Penh on Thursday in a public forum that organizers said was intended to send a message to Cambodian and Asean leaders ahead of a regional summit in the capital next week.

Billed as an “Asean Grassroots People’s...

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  • 04 Nov 2022
‘People's Assembly’ wide-ranging petition accepted: City Hall

The Phnom Penh Municipal Administration has received a petition from representatives of various associations, NGOs, civil society organisations (CSOs) and private citizens after they gathered to exchange views at a recently concluded “people’s congress”.

The gathering to...

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  • 21 Mar 2023
Kampong Chhnang hosts Seed Festival to preserve traditional seed varieties and promote natural farming techniques

The Kampong Chhnang province in Cambodia is hosting a two-day Seed Festival starting today, with the aim of preserving traditional seed varieties at the local level and disseminating natural farming techniques to promote agriculture. The festival is being attended by more than 600 participants, i...

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  • 21 Mar 2023
Kampong Chhnang seed festival begins today

Starting today, five local communities in Kampong Chhnang province will host a two-day Seed Festival under the theme ‘Together to Preserve Khmer Ancient Seeds and National Identity.

More than 600 participants, comprising farmers, fishermen, small-scale food producers, indigenous peo...