Cambodia
Title: Cambodia
Category: History | Words: 4066 | Pages: 17.3 (approximately 235 words/page)
Cambodia
The Impact of the Past on the Present
Cambodia, then, like so many other nations in the developing world, is an agricultural country, and, in terms of the cash incomes of its people, desperately poor.
In the past, Cambodia was able to earn foreign exchange to pay for imported goods by selling agricultural surpluses-of rice and corn, for example-or plant crops, such as pepper, rubber, and cotton. Its normal patterns of trade were broken up …
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Imports
International food aid, fuels, consumer goods, machinery
Industries
Rice milling, fishing, wood products, rubber, cements, gem mining
Agriculture
Mainly subsistence farming except for rubber plantations; main crops-
rice, rubber, maize, food shortages-rice, meat, vegetables, dairy
products, sugar, flour
Natural resources
Timber, gemstones, some iron ore, manganese, phosphates,
hydropower potential
Bibliography
Bibliography
· Encarta 97 Encyclopedia
Funk & Wagnails
· Brittanica Encyclopedia
ã 1994
· Encyclopedia Americana
ã 1993
· "A history of Cambodia" (1983)
Michael Vickery & David P. Chandler
Cambodia 1975-1982 (1984)
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