Family trade: Ith (left) cooking palm sap at her village. — AP
CHIN Choeun spends nearly 12 hours a day collecting sap from palm trees that he and his wife turn into palm sugar.
The 54-year-old boasts of being one of Cambodia’s most skillful palm tree climbers, having learned it from his father. But after 36 years scaling tree after tree, Choeun plans to retire in the next couple of years because of age-related safety concerns.
