https://www.scmp.com/rss/512206/feed en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com When the inhabitants of Trapeang Rung learned in 2017 that a 1,000-hectare banana plantation would be established in their village by Longmate Agriculture and was set to provide hundreds of jobs, there was jubilation, recalls Kem Lot. The 59-year-old was hired by Longmate Agriculture in April 2018. For the villagers, Longmate’s banana farm represented an opportunity – a rarity in the rural bowels of coastal Kampot province – and Kem Lot, like many of his neighbours in the small farming... https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/long-reads/article/3171792/china-wants-bananas-cambodias-banana-workers?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/long-reads/article/3171792/china-wants-bananas-cambodias-banana-workers?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 27 Mar 2022 00:15:22 +0000