Water shortages, floods impact rice crops in Cambodia's Kampong Cham, Kampong Thom

Extremely dry conditions have affected more than 300 hactares of dry season rice in Kampong Cham’s Cheung Prey and Batheay districts. - Photo: Kampong Cham provincial administration

PHNOM PENH: More than 300 hectares of dry season rice in Kampong Cham’s Cheung Prey and Batheay districts have been affected by a lack of water, while the flash floods in Kampong Thom province have begun to recede, reducing some of the damage to affected crops.

At least 40 of the 327 hectares of dry season rice in four communes of Cheung Prey district have been damaged due to water shortages during the rainy season.