CAMBODIA’S COTTON INDUSTRY HAS POTENTIAL – BUT IS STILL NASCENT
June 6th, 2014
A LACK of technological know-how, the difficulty of obtaining good species of cotton seeds, plus poor morale amongst farmers, has brought cotton cultivation in Cambodia to a trickle, a former cotton company executive has told WTiN.com.Samnang Seima, the director of Seladamex Co Ltd, recalled that his company started cultivating cotton in 2007, but by 2012 switched to other crops such as rubber. It had also tried and ultimately failed to persuade other farmers based in its home Battambang province to switch to cotton. Today Cambodia’s cotton cultivation is just ...
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