Thousands of peasant families living around the area tourism Province are trying to change daily life by growing vegetables without chemicals

Currently, many farmers in the Province began to domesticate animals and grow vegetables, fruit in tourist destinations serve is meant supply of agricultural products to hotels and restaurants catering for tourists, and some places open for tourists to visit and search understand there. The research in the neighborhood not far from the southern city of Siem Reap, more than 2,500 people living in households was about 85% of the population there are many different types of farming. He seems to villagers in research field a farmer among farmers is more current, said his family has been growing vegetables many, such as cauliflower, spaichangkuah and morning without using chemical fertilizers to sell to the market. He emphasized that grow vegetables to support his family, from the need to buy vegetables from the market to eat and sell for money for children to go to school with them. Farmers who added that farmers in the neighborhood as well as research, he still has a problem because vegetables farmers produce cheaper. Today cabbage 1 kg in the market price of 1,000 riel to see very little in the summer vegetables are cheaper, but if we do not do it not eat. While the Lotus name, a farmer living in the village neighborhood weeds, said similar vegetables he planted fertilizer does not use chemicals. this type of vegetation to help you eat healthy vegetables that chemicals present, but he planted vegetable market at a lower price, but of mind. If luggage rise to more 10-20 thousand USD from vegetable and prices. She said she wanted to help support buying more vegetables Khmer bring vegetables imported from too many neighbors. He quail community information center in the district of current research showed that many people in the village of his neighborhood transformed from unemployment and no income, who grow vegetables to sell. Mr. Quail said that research in the neighborhood residents some 2,500 families or about 12,000 people, 85% capture business grow vegetables to supply the market and open to foreign tourists into play entertainment. Planting vegetables can make a farmer-class level, but what he sees that farmers are disadvantaged vegetable farmers in Khmer not stable yet. He urged the government to support the product in a single research community by helping vegetable market Khmer affordable . He added that the government help through the Apsara Authority and provincial authorities as well as cooperation with partners GIZ (GTZ) efforts for many years on a project called the green belt (green belt) to help the people living around the area Heritage can earn indirectly from tourism by growing vegetables, fruits and livestock sales to hotels and restaurants. Kim Chhay Heang Governor of Siem Reap, said that currently there are more than 1 million residents, 4 thousand farmers is about 80% . Research informal farmers who grow vegetables to sell to the market in Siem currently earn an average of about $ 200 or more 1 month. Moreover, he understood that growing vegetables, apart from the money to support a family vegetable garden also attracts foreign tourists want to visit. Kim Chhay Heang said authorities are encouraging farmers to grow vegetables, and also trying to find a place to put farmers can transport sold in the market in more and easier. We discussed with stakeholders rather to find ways to facilitate him wide and carrying vegetables to sell more. Provincial authorities to see that although many Khmer farmers are trying to produce vegetables to earn income from tourism, the current income Tourism from 30% to leak through major hotels and restaurants to buy vegetables, fruits and meat from abroad only in Cambodia did not yet have fruit, vegetables and some meat from Europe