The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
A farmer ploughs his paddy field using a wooden plough pulled by a pair of zebu as others plant rice in the wake of the plough on a farm south of Phnom Penh. Cambodian farming methods remain as they have been for hundreds of years, linked to the annual cycles of flooding and dry season. The Khmer Rouge regime of the mid 1970s attempted to turn Cambodia's entire population over to agriculture, establishing paddy fields from virgin jungle and banning traditional forms of rice growing, which not only led to mass starvation, but to the loss of important rice seed stocks, levee banks and centuries of expertise. Combined with indiscriminate seeding of anti personnel mines which tie an estimated 800,000 hectares of productive land, the losses are still being felt today.
Two farmers plant out a rice crop by hand in a paddy field on a farm at the Preah Leap Agricultural College, north of Phnom Penh. Cambodian farming methods remain as they have been for hundreds of yea
A pair of harnessed zebu wait for a farmer to clear pink flowered lotuses from his paddy field as a woman drives a gaggle of geese along the edge of the bank. Stooks of rice (to the right of the woman
Harry Nesbitt (right), an Australian agronomist with extensive prior experience with agricultural projects in Australia, Zimbabwe, the Philippines and Thailand, manages the Cambodia IRRI (Internationa
A zebu grazes in front of one of the main buildings that forms the Preah Leap Agricultural College, located north of Phnom Penh. The college is being assisted by teachers employed by Australian Cathol
Palms form a background to a plot of ground at the Preah Leap Agricultural College, north of Phnom Penh, which has been seeded with a legume crop as part of diversity experiments being conducted by st
A farmer pauses in his ploughing to work his paddy field with a hoe as his two harnessed zebu wait on a farm at the Preah Leap Agricultural College, north of Phnom Penh. Rice crops in various stages o
