Thursday 2 December 2010

Fruit and plant in Battambang


Cambodia is the agriculture country, many provinces around Tonle Sap Lake are good for growing rice and fruit. Battambang is the one that produce rice, orange, mango, jack fruit, rambutan, Duran, litchi. In 1970 Battambang rice can be fed for the whole country. Now do you want to know how to grow an orange and types of rice? If you want to know I will tell all of you today.

In Battambang the most popular fruit and plant are oranges and rice. So here is the Instruction how to grow an oranges

Things You'll Need:

- Compost Makers
- Fertilizers
- Garden Hoses
- Mulch
- Orange trees
- Shovels




How to grow:

1 Purchase an oranges variety adapted to your area.
2 Plant the trees in a warm, sunny area where the soil drain well.
3 Mulch to conserve water.
4 Water the trees deeply once every midsummer. Waterless often if it rain or if the
weather is cool.
5 Fertilize every four to six weeks from February to August.
6 Protect trees from frost if temperature are forecast to drop below 28 degrees F.
7 Harvest oranges when they taste sweet. Timing will vary by variety and growing area.

The types of rice:

There are 2 major types of rice, INDICA ( long grain) and JAPONICA ( medium and short grain) so well in different environment. Long grain INDICA rice ( BASMAT and JASMINE for example) do well in hot equatorial climates. Medium and Short grain JAPONICA rice grow well in temperate and mountainous region.

Oranges and rice in Battambang provides best taste among other orange and rice in other provinces. The vitamin C in orange is good for health too.

Post by Borey member of group Jewelry

1 comment:

  1. Hi Borey,

    How are you?

    I didn't know Battambang grew oranges.
    Very interesting.

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