Husk Super Farmer: Women changing the face of agriculture in Cambodia

“Srouy’s hands move deftly amongst the vines, her thumb and forefinger pinching each ripe bean from its stem. By the end of the month, she will have harvested some 60 kilograms of beans for sale to her local farmers’ cooperative. Today, after forty years of farming, Srouy is as much entrepreneur as farmer. Ten years ago, she was amongst the first to move away from rice harvesting to grow vegetables. This was something of an achievement in a country where a commonly heard refrain was ‘a farmer grows rice’. Perhaps, more accurately, men grow rice. Vegetables were more often grown for household consumption with the crop tended by women.”