An article in the Phnom Penh Post (3 December 2009) cites the following:
Interesting though, the article (which mainly focuses on maize) does cite Cambodian government officials saying that higher productivity is the road to poverty reduction.
Finally there's the ever so subtle way in promising nothing:
'Lukatch [president of DuPont Asia Pacific] said hybrid rice seeds were also planned for Cambodia, but did not give details of the specific products or timeline'.So if there's no timeline nor product, what is the plan?
Interesting though, the article (which mainly focuses on maize) does cite Cambodian government officials saying that higher productivity is the road to poverty reduction.
'...it will help farmers with more income by increasing their productivity, which is directly involved in poverty eradication in rural areas,” Lim Sokun, secretary of state for the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, said at the launch'.That's never the case, higher incomes though do help.
Finally there's the ever so subtle way in promising nothing:
'Lukach and Sakorn Tripetchpisal, the Thailand country manager for Pioneer, predicted that DuPont’s corn seeds could help Cambodia improve its yield from an average of less than 6 tonnes per hectare to levels similar to those in the United States, which is close to 11 tonnes per hectare'.That 6 tonnes per hectare is often already obtained from the (illegally imported) hybrid seeds, so don't expect higher productivity and certainly nowhere as high as the DuPont official claims.
