Hi! My name is Sim Som Oun and this is my wife, Sok Reth. We have 8 children, 6 sons and 2 daughters, 6 of them have moved to Phnom Penh City, they have jobs there. We live with 2 sons, Toeur 15 is in 7th grade at Japan school and Sompov 12, 4th grade at TaNgak Primary school in TaNgak Village, PreahSdach District, Prey Veng Province, Cambodia.
From very early in the morning around 4am, we have to get up because my wife has to make (BanChhiev) yellow cake ready for sales. Generally we finish before 8am. As an FBA, I often visit my clients to follow-up their growing activities as well as selling seeds and fertilizer (white bags). While I am away to visit my clients, my wife helps me sells them at home.
Ooh!Ooh! I am just trying to help my wife grind rice into flour for her yellow cake. Usually my son, Toeur, does it but now he’s in the field to catch fish and birds. I will have to leave it for my son when he’s back from the field, I can’t do it! ha!ha!
And this is my vegetable garden where I grow kind of Sponge Gourd and mints and tree fruits; mango, banana and jack fruit. I used to have long bean, bitter gourd and cucumber here. Also, I have a fish pond remaining about 200 cat fish which we can eat some and sell them to the market.
80 packages of seeds were sold to an Agriculture District, and I was asked to a one-day-training to share experiences with other 40 farmers this month.
There are 11 villages in my commune, but 2 never been visited yet. Pshooo! As an old man it is not easy to travel much. I had stopped from FBA but decided to work again because I could see that my clients lack of experiences and they would need me.
Having talked with them, I learn that clients in 5 villages, Trapaing Chhouk, Prey Pdao, Srash, Krosa Chet and TaNgak, don’t have enough water especially in the dry season and their pumps are broken or not working properly and they can’t afford ones. It would be useful for their vegetable garden as well as rice field if they have ones.
Alright! Here is my demo Rice field where I apply new techniques to proof the farmers around here comparing with the ones around especially the one behind me. One of the farmers bought some bags of fertilizers from me after they saw this. I think later on or next growing season I will be able to sell more.
Being an FBA, I can help or improve not only my living standard but also villagers around. So I will have to go on with this work then.
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