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Cambodia: communities in protracted struggle against Chinese sugar companies’ land grab
▻https://www.grain.org/article/entries/5728-cambodia-communities-in-protracted-struggle-against-chinese-sugar-compan
A new joint report from Community Network in Action (CNA), Ponlok Khmer, GRAIN, Cambodia Indigenous Youth Association (CIYA), and the Asia Indigenous Peoples Pact (AIPP) exposes the devastating consequences of land grabs for indigenous communities in Preah Vihear province, northern Cambodia.
The report reveals how Chinese sugarcane companies, attracted by the Cambodian government to invest in local agro-industry, have been violating the fundamental rights of communities and destroying livelihoods and ecosystems over the past six years. Five subsidiaries of a single Chinese state-owned company, Hengfu Group Sugar Industry, were granted economic land concessions covering more than 40,000 hectares in 2011.
Over the years, affected communities in Preah Vihear have engaged in sustained resistance to the destruction of their livelihoods and culture, and exposed land grabs for what they really are: violent, devastating, and unlawful. They have called for the concessions to be cancelled and the land returned to them. So far, they have managed to slow but not stop the onslaught from the concessions. But they have not given up.
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  #Welt_Bio to see pepper harvests in 2018
  South Korean-owned Welt Bio Co Ltd.’s $40-million pepper plantation in Mondulkiri province is expected to see its first harvest next year from what it claims to be the largest pepper farm in the world.
  “About 200 hectares of the 350-hectare cultivated land have been planted with pepper,” said Song Kheang, director of Mondulkiri’s provincial agriculture department, yesterday.
  “A team from the provincial agriculture department had just visited the plantation and according to our assessment they could start harvesting next year,” he added.
  According to Hean Vanhan, director-general of the general directorate of agriculture at the Ministry of Agriculture, Welt Bio Co plants pepper using seeds from Cambodia and Malaysia.
  “If the company is successful in planting pepper on the total 1,000 hectares of land, it will be the largest pepper plantation in the world,” said Mr Vanhan.
  According to Kim Yuong Jun, CEO of Welt Bio Co, pepper from its Mondulkiri plantation would be exported around the globe.
  Pepper is planted in 19 provinces across the country and Tbong Khmom province, located in the east of the country, contributes to about 75 percent of total production.
  Due to lack of pepper processing factories, most of Cambodia’s black pepper is exported to Vietnam, the world’s biggest pepper producing country.
  Pepper growers are now urging the government to set up processing factories in the country, so that they can bypass the Vietnamese middlemen, and export their products directly overseas.
  “The government should encourage investors to put funds into pepper processing plants so that we wean ourselves away from the Vietnamese traders,” Chan Sophal, a pepper farm owner in Preah Vihear province, told Khmer Times recently.
  Last year, Cambodia’s pepper production was 11,800 tonnes and is predicted to increase by 70 percent, to 20,000 tonnes by the end of 2017, according to the Ministry of Agriculture.
  ▻https://www.khmertimeskh.com/5078377/welt-bio-see-pepper-harvests-2018
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Hundreds ask for help in disputes | Khmer Times | News Portal Cambodia |
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About 500 people representing thousands of families from four provinces who are affected by the development of sugarcane plantations requested intervention from Prime Minister Hun Sen yesterday.
The request was made at a gathering to submit a petition to the prime minister’s cabinet and the European Union by citizens from Kampong Speu, Koh Kong, Preah Vihear and Oddar Meanchey provinces.
They are engaged in long-running land disputes with at least a dozen companies including Phnom Penh Sugar, Kampong Speu Sugar, Koh Kong Sugar Industry, Koh Kong Plantation, Chinese company HLH and Angkor Sugar.
Seoung Sokhom, a representative of more than 700 families in Kampong Speu province’s Oral and Thpong districts, said that land disputes involving 1,000 hectares between them and Phnom Penh Sugar and Kampong Speu Sugar – both owned by ruling party senator Ly Yong Phat – as well as HLH had occurred since 2010.
An inter-ministerial working group and the EU had in the past gone to evaluate the impact of those companies on the villagers’ land to find the solution, but a document was still waiting for the prime minister’s signature.
“We came to submit this petition to ask the prime minister to consider signing on those matters. We want the prime minister to sign so the inter-ministerial committee can go and evaluate compensation for us,” he said.
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A Cross-Section of Results from the 2015 Lidar Campaign - CALI
▻http://angkorlidar.org/2016/05/cross-section-results-2015-campaign
The lidar company (PT McElhanney Indonesia) who did our acquisition for CALI did a completely separate acquisition in Preah Vihear Province under the administrative purview of the Ministry of Mines and Energy, which happily coincides with several areas that saw iron mining and smelting during the Angkor period (and perhaps before and after). They were kind enough to let us analyse the data for archaeological remains, and it turns out that ancient iron-working sites have an extremely clear signature in the lidar data, even though the data quality (density of points) is about a quarter of what we’d normally order for an archaeological project.
#archéologie #angkor #laser #vue_d'avion #cartographie #beau
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Police block Preah Vihear villagers’ planned sugar protest, National, Phnom Penh Post
▻http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/police-block-preah-vihear-villagers-planned-sugar-protest
More than 200 angry ethnic Kuoy villagers who claim their land has been stolen by a Chinese-owned sugar company were blocked from protesting as Prime Minister Hun Sen inaugurated the firm’s mill in Preah Vihear province yesterday.
The $360 million facility is the biggest sugar plant in Cambodia and one of the largest in Asia, according to its owner, Rui Feng (Cambodia) International. The prime minister hailed the plant – which can produce over 2,000 tonnes of sugar per day – as a sign of Cambodia’s political and economic strength.
“This huge investment clearly shows that investors have firm confidence in the Cambodian People’s Party-led government,” Hun Sen told the 20,000 assembled officials and residents. “This also reflects excellent relations and mutual trust between China and Cambodia.”
The mill will process sugarcane grown on 40,000 hectares of land granted as economic land concessions to Rui Feng and four sister companies.
However, groups of villagers claim the land is theirs and have been involved in a protracted dispute with Rui Feng since 2012.
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Hundreds of Cambodian Villagers Halt Clearing of Land in Preah Vihear
▻http://www.rfa.org/english/news/cambodia/land-05052015132316.html
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Hundreds of villagers in northern Cambodia’s Preah Vihear province have stopped two foreign firms from clearing village land, saying the developers illegally encroached on their farms and calling on the government to rescind their concession licenses, a representative said Tuesday.
Residents of three communes in Rovieng district, which is home to mostly ethnic Kuoy villagers, have expressed frustration with a recent government decision to grant Vietnamese developer Thy Nga and Taiwanese firm PNT thousands of hectares (1 hectare = 2.5 acres) of area land, leaving little for younger generations to cultivate.
On Monday, more than 300 villagers formed a human barrier, blocking bulldozers owned by the two companies from clearing what they said was their ancestral farmland and operating outside of the boundaries set by their concessions.
The company agreed to suspend clearing the land after being confronted by villagers.
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