Mushrooms Reduce Poverty: KOICA
Tuesday, 02 February 2010 02:57 DAP-NEWS
Reporters see mushrooms in Chong village, Sambo commune, Batheay district, Kg. Cham, Picture from KOICA Cambodia Office
A KOICA representative claimed on Monday that planting mushrooms helps Cambodians to raise their living standards.
Mushrooms provide vitamins and protein gradient, Sun Sungil said in Kampong Cham province.
One villager told DAP News Cambodia that she earned US$50 after two months for mushrooms that fetched around CR8,000 a kilo at market, she added.
Son Sung-il said that KOICA has cooperated with National Prek Leap Agricultural School on the project.
KOICA has provided training courses to the poor to diversify incomesin vegetable growing, mushroom processing, chicken and pig husbandry and small scale fish farming.
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