| Author | Srey Chanthy |
| Call Number | AIT Thesis no. AE-95-42 |
| Subject(s) | Farm produce--Cambodia--Takeo
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| Note | A thesis submitted in partial fulfilment
of the requirement for the degree of Master of Science, School of Environment, Resources, and Development |
| Publisher | Asian Institute of Technology |
| Abstract | This study was conducted in Bati district, one of densely populated countryside of Takeo
province of Cambodia. The author was trying to discover constraints on and opportunities for
increasing the production of agriculture of existing systems. It has explored various physical and
socio-economic factors affecting the system.
Attempts were first made by reviewing carefully all available data at all levels, mostly
in agricultural sector of Takeo province as a whole, and with respective concentration on the
study site. Then field survey followed. Descriptive analysis was performed and results are
presented.
The study searched into the economic viability (economic profitability) of farmers'
practices within the current systems. Family income by farm size and as well as by zone was
observed to estimate the wealthiness of the local population. Farm models by LP for different
farm scales were invented, especially for farmers who owned both rice field and chamcar (cashcrop farmland).
The study concluded that the site is close to provincial and country capitals. It is safe and
easily accessible. Market accessibility is mostly acceptable; but travelling is difficult, prices of
agricultural produce are precisely reasonable regardless of marketing places. The existing systems
is crop-livestock integrated farming systems in which rice is important with minimum off-farm
activities. Crop yields are low. Dry season rice give the highest return above variable cost (3.3),
next followed by pumpkin (2.7). But wet season rice is the major crop for family food
consumption. Cattle are raised only for draft power, while cow is reared for stock as well as for
draft. Chicken and pig are of poor breeds with long period of production giving low yield and
epidemic is prevailing. Family earnings are very low which are chiefly obtained from farming
and village works. The living conditions of the local people are meagre. Farm planning models
given by LP are envisaged as providing more profit and boosting cropping intensity and land use
as compared to farmers' pattern.
The most important constraints are, lack of government supports and poor extension
services, low family income and lack of cash, surplus labor, infertile soils, farmers' poor
practices, mono-cropping, small farm holding size due to high population density, lack of water
supply for home use as well as for irrigation, forest scarcity, and low crop yield leading to
chronic food deficit. |
| Year | 1995 |
| Type | Thesis |
| School | School of Environment, Resources, and Development (SERD) |
| Department | Department of Food, Agriculture and Natural Resources (Former title: Department of Food Agriculture, and BioResources (DFAB)) |
| Academic Program/FoS | Agricultural and Food Engineering (AE) |
| Chairperson(s) | Upasena, Selawa H.;Boonjit Titapiwatanakun |
| Examination Committee(s) | Wickramanayake, Ebel W. |
| Scholarship Donor(s) | DANIDA |
| Degree | Thesis (M.Sc.) - Asian Institute of Technology, 1995 |