The Use Of Trees

Trees are a very important resource for our country. Both people and animals can get many kinds of food and medicine from them. Their wood can be used for many things including cooking, heating, making furniture and building houses and boats.

If we cut down trees, we may destroy our environment, because without trees our environment will not be either comfortable or attractive in either town or country. An important thing to know about trees is that they hold the earth tightly so that the soil on the surface cannot be blown away in windy or washed away by heavy rain. 

This is important, because when the surface soil is blown or washed away from an area, plants cannot grow there and that place becomes a desert. When it becomes empty and dead, people will avoid it and everyone living there will suffer and have to move away.

Of course, sometimes we must cut a tree, but we must plant another in its place. And we must do this regularly. Remember, it is easy to cut down a tree, but it isn't easy to grow one, it takes only an hour or two to cut down a lovely, big tree, but it can take more than one hundred years to grow one. Now we may feel that our country is very beautiful. But for how long? We must look after our trees carefully if we don't want our country to become a desert.

Crops Along The Rivers

Farmers along the rivers work harder than other farmers in our country. They plant all kind of crops, rice, com, beans and tobacco. This work makes them very busy. Every day they must work in their fields from Sunrise until sunset.

Before the farmers plant or transplant their seeds. They must prepare the soil. First, they have to take out the small plants. Then they must plough and rake the soil until it becomes muddy.

When the crops are growing, the crops need a lot of the water. So the farmers must make enough ponds and wells. But diseases and insects also like water, so the farmers must be careful or they will increase and damage the crops. Then, when the crops are ripe, the farmers are busy again. First they cut the crops in the field. Then they collect them for their homes or the market.

The Usefulness Of The Palm Trees

             We have a lot of natural riches in Cambodia above all, the palm trees grow up in the central low-lying land. They are high, light black. Their midribs have saws, forked green leaves. The palm-trees have a plenty of advantages, such as:

Their trunks are used for constructions and furniture, including, homes, school, bridges, tables, desks, bookcases, chairs, beds, boats, ox-carts, pigsties, barns, cow-stables, hen-lofts, pigeon-lofts, and firewood. Whereas their roots are used for some ancient remedies, such as: hemorrhoid. Whereas their leaves are used for material objects.

They include hates, mate, (hem a mat), baskets, making the cakes, sheets or palm leaves for roofing, such as, cottages pigsties, hen-lofts, cow-stables, barns, especially, houses, and their twigs are used for to tie, such as, sheets of palm leaves, cakes. Whereas their midribs are used for hedges, walls of hen-lofts, to make cow-ropes, to make small flat baskets, to make hammocks, to make palm rocks (carried-hangs). As for barks of the palm trees are used for firewood, to make sweeps, to make cow-shovels, to hem or weave cow-ropes. Whereas male and female palm-flowers are used for production and refining sugar, palm juice to drink, palm sugar.

Besides these, palm juice can refine or produce as in palm-sugar, palm wine, vinegar, on the other hands male palm flowers can make ancient remedies. As for the raw palm fruit can cook the soup, eat section of palm fruit, peel section of palm fruit to make the dessert, sometimes people cut them tor cows. When the palm fruit ripe, they can make cakes, or jelly. They are delicious I like.

Whereas palm-seeds can plant on the dikes, hill hocks, gardens. We can choose them to take buds in palm-shells to eat. As for palm-seedlings can pull to boll them eating. Whereas young green buds if of palm tree can eat or cook the meal.

The palm trees are important for people and animals. Furthermore, they are fresh green beauty in our environment in Cambodia. So that, we all must take care of and know their advantages forever.

Agriculture in Cambodia

Cambodia locates in South-east Asia, and it is in tropical area. Cambodia consists of a basin-shaped low land area enclosed by mountain ranges. Cambodia also has rivers and lakes. This geographic feature is very good for agriculture.

The majority of Cambodian people are farmers who transplant rice in low land area. In the lowest land which is under water in the raining season near the rivers or lakes, the farmers can transplant their rice tor two times or three times by using short-time rice seeds.

On the banks of the rivers, the farmers do not plant rice. But they plant vegetables, com, tobacco, and fruit trees. The farmers can earn a lot of money. For the farmers in the high land and mountain area, a small number of them plant rice, but the majority of them prefer to plant beans and soy beans.

In my conclusion, I think that our farmers try hard to work on their farms, but the yields are enough for people in the country, and not enough to export, so the government must pay attention on Agriculture.