Japan, Cambodia’s Biggest Agricultural Aid Provider

Japan is known to remain Cambodia’s top donor country providing almost US$70 M in total Official Development Assistance (ODA) plus grant aids and technical assistances totaled US$1,760 M; all of which are mostly contributed to agricultural sector, Agriculture Minister Chan Sarun underlined during the meeting with Mr. Teruyoshi Kumashiro, Director General of JICA’s Rural Development Department, to check the result of implementation of JICA’s aids and cooperation projects, on last Thursday 2012. He further added there have been lots of Japan’s aids through JICA, offered to the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries including human resource training for 287 ministry’s officials from short-term training to doctoral degree and so forth. (Rasmei Kam, 07-08 October 2012)