Cambodia and the rest of the Asia-Pacific region need to transform agriculture to make it modern, climate-proof and inclusive, according to the Asian Development Bank (ADB). With four in five of Developing Asia’s poor living in the countryside it is vital to increase farmers’ output and income the bank said. “Within developing Asia agriculture remains extremely important. About one third of workers are still employed in the sector and what we estimate is about 80 percent of poor people live in rural areas and are reliant on agriculture in some way or other,” said David Freedman, country economist at the ADB Cambodia Resident Mission…
September 1st, Khmer Times