Monday, 07 December 2009 03:16 DAP-NEWS
(Posted by CAAI News Media)
Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen on Saturday urged the local people to plant more sugar cane for domestic use and possible export.
“We have to transfer the battlefield areas to become development regions and plant crops,” he said airing the ground breaking of National Road 68 construction in O’Smach.
“I flew over a huge sugar cane plantation (in Banteay Mean Chey province) belongnig to a local company, Ly Yong Phat. Each year, it could produce about 25,000 tons of sugar cane and for Koh Kong Province,” he said, urging more such plantations.
Cambodian people do not eat sugar cane much, preferring palm sugar instead, he noted, so Cambodia now has sugar cane to export to other countries.
Food security is sparking concern among the publics after most countries transferred agricultural land into planting bio-fuel crops.
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