Green O Farm Claim

The increasing demand for organic vegetables in Cambodia, led GOF to venture into the organic field in 2009. In 2012, GOF shifted their farm operations to  Kampong Speu  province, after persuading local farmers from six villages to join hands with company. The villages are located in  Angdong Sla village, Anglong thorm village, Tompong village, Krang Speu village, Kahang village and Som Pan Village. About 80 farmers are growing and providing fresh organic vegetables to GOF. In effect about 400 people in these six villages have been engaged in this organic production.

Our company tries to improve and instruct our farmers to use agriculture products with right condition and get best quality and quantity. Company do researched and developed from resource in Cambodia for producing organic vegetables. We preserve the natural resources and protect the environment. We hired a trainer to train the farmers in the six villages on how to grow vegetables organically. The farmers picked up the organic know how within two months’ time from the trainer.

Currently the farmers grow various types of lettuce and Leaf, herbs, Fruit, Root and wine crop  under open field conditions.  These varieties take between six to eight weeks from planting to harvesting. Farmers keep between 2-4 cows each and this ensures a regular supply of cowdung to make cowdung manure. Pest and disease control is strictly through organic methods. Some bio pesticides are made by the farmers and some are purchased from the market and given to the farmers by GOF.

Irrigation is simple. The farmers use hand watering in their small plots.  Where the growing beds are straight,  a water tanker passes between the beds and water is sprayed from the tanker on to the beds by means of a hose pipe.  As there is a big lake near one of the farms, there is ample water for irrigation.

GOF’s mission is to convince Cambodians that organic produce is much better than produce which has been grown with the help of pesticides.