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Nearly 14,000ha of farmland in Zone 2 and Zone 3 of the Tonle Sap Lake have so far been allocated by the government to some 7,000 households in the provinces surrounding the lake, according to preliminary data seen by The Post on June 7.
Prime Minister Hun Sen issued a sub-decree on May 27 reassigning more than 34sq km of land in Zone 3 of the protected area surrounding Tonle Sap Lake to Zone 2. The rezoning will allow restricted use of the land for the 1,658 households in Pursat province that rely on it.
More than 2,000ha of dry season rice in three communes of Banteay Meanchey province’s Preah Netr Preah district are at risk of damage by a lack of irrigation water as canals dry up due to drought, the authorities and farmers said. The three communes are Phnom Leap, Prasat and Teuk Chor.
The Banteay Meanchey Provincial Court on December 22 detained a commune chief in Preah Netr Preah district and a reporter from the Khmer Student News Unit on charges of illegal encroachment, occupation and sale of state land that is part of Region 3 of the Tonle Sap Lake wetlands.