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In Cambodia, 85 percent of the total population is dependent on agricultural activities, according to Khieu Borin of the country's Department of Animal Health and Production in the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries. The farming system includes rice cultivation, sugar palm tree production, livestock farming and vegetable growing, according the paper The Sugar Palm Tree as the Basis of Integrated Farming in Cambodia. Cambodians are also heavily involved in the fishing industry.
Khieu's paper, while complex, contains the type of information the Rural Media Library hopes to obtain. The article proposes using sugar palms to supplement for livestock, some of which grow thin during plowing seasons. In addition, the use of the sugar palm trees would free up grains and other foods to be used by the rural population (Cambodia has not produced enough cereal grain to feed the country since 1979).
Innovations like these, disseminated to the rural level, would help improve the lives of farmers who could implement these techniques. The Pookai Book Project is looking for farming books in the areas of fishing, rice cultivation, sugar palm tree production, livestock farming and vegetable growing would help farmers in Cambodia. Please make sure the books are relevant to Southeast Asian farming.
Books using basic English would be helpful.