KHOUTH SOPHAKCHAKRYA for The Phnom Penh Post
PRIME Minister Hun Sen has ordered authorities to destroy manmade reservoirs around the Tonle Sap lake and ban farmers from raising crops and animals in the surrounding ecologically sensitive flooded forest areas.
The government last year ordered that all reservoirs surrounding the lake be destroyed, but relented after local farmers pleaded with authorities to allow them to cultivate rice for one more dry season. On Tuesday, Hun Sen ordered authorities to proceed with dismantling any remaining reservoirs.
“Now, it is time for us to recheck these problems and take measures to destroy the water reservoirs,” Hun Sen said in a speech Tuesday, the final day of an annual Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries meeting.
Farmers say the reservoirs are needed to irrigate their crops.
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