ការតំរង់ទិសអោយចំភាពក្រីក្រ

Salient Features of Poverty in Agricultural Sector of Cambodia

•          Agriculture in Cambodia predominant lowland rain-fed rice farming with needs for productivity increase

•          Staple diet of Cambodia is rice and fish

•          20% of irrigation schemes full operational

•          Limited all-weather roads

•          Lack of clean water, especially during dry season

•          Low percentage of households with latrines

•          Unemployed rural workforce

•          Micro credit through informal lenders with high interest rates

•          Landmines

•          Insecure land tenure

•          Weak institutions

 

Project Target Groups and Poverty

 

•          55.000 Agricultural Households (280.000 people)

o        50% of these do have an annual food deficit of 4 months

o        33% of these have insufficient income to purchase minimum food

•          Women between 18 and 64 years of age

•          Youths between 15 and 17 years of age

•          Victims of Landmines

 

Project Interventions Targeting Poverty

 

•          Intensification and diversification of cropping

•          Increased home food security

•          Specifically trained agricultural extension workers

•          Nutrition for livestock productivity

•          Small scale aquaculture

•          Rehabilitation of small-scale irrigation systems

•          Vocational training

•          Silk production

•          Vegetable marketing

•          Fish processing

•          Market information

•          Literacy programmes

•          Gender awareness programmes

•          Health programmes

•          Sanitation

•          Institutional strengthening

•          Rehabilitation of sub-tertiary rural roads

•          Rural water supply, wells, ponds, etc

•          Support provision of financial services

•          De-mining

•          Land-titling

•          Awareness creation “safeguarding land”