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 …

…rubber, rice, pepper, wood 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)