Land Grab by Phnom Penh Sugar Company, Kampong Speu, Cambodia | Ejatlas 8/15/20, 2:18 AM
'Blood sugar' land grab by Phnom Penh Sugar Company, Kampong Speu, Cambodia | EJAtlas 8/15/20, 2:18 AM 'Blood sugar' land grab by Phnom Penh Sugar Company, Kampong Speu, Cambodia Leaflet (https://leafletjs.com) | © OpenStreetMap (https://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright) contributors Description: Encouraged by Cambodia’s policy to establish large-scale agriculture under the Economic Land Concessions (ELC) scheme, and incentivized by the European agreement “Everything but Arms” (EBA) with least developed countries, Cambodia attracted large amounts of investment into sugar production, allowing the country to export their products at a !xed minimum price and without tari"s to the European Union. Investments attracted in this context, caused some of the most depressing land grab con#icts in Cambodia. Among them are the evictions surrounding Phnom Penh Sugar Co. Ltd.’s sugarcane plantations for the production of what some called “blood sugar” (1;5;7). In February 2010, Phnom Penh Sugar Company (PPSC), owned by ruling party senator and business tycoon Ly Yong Phat, was granted an ELC covering 8,343ha in Thpong district, Kamping Speu district. Another ELC amounting to 9,052ha, located in Omlaing commune, Oral district, was granted to the sister company Kampong Speu Sugar Company (KSSC), owned by his wife Kim Hean. On March 21, Prime Minister Hun Sen further signed a sub-decree to classify 4,700ha in the Oral Wildlife Protected Area as an extension of the concession land granted to KSSC. Both companies, which are closely associated and further belong to the same family, control now more than 23,000ha of ELC land, while the legal limit per ELC is set to 10,000ha (2).
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