via CAAI News Media
Friday, February 5, 2010
Economic & Business
Phnom Penh (ANTARA News/Asia Pulse) - Cambodia on February 4 broke ground for its greatest irrigation waterworks in Battambang province in a bid to increase farming area and crops in one of the country's main rice-growing provinces.
The project has a total investment capital of US$61 million extracted from foreign credit and the government's budget. Once completed within the next two years, the project will provide production water to all districts within the province through a network of irrigation canals with a total length of 332 kilometres.
Battambang, located some 340 kilometres west of Phnom Penh, now has 260,000 hectares of rice fields with an annual yield of around 700,000 tonnes.
Source:
Business in Asia Today - Feb. 5, 2010
published by Asia Pulse
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