Cambodia's Royal Ploughing Ceremony 2011

Cambodia on May 21 celebrated the annual Royal Plowing Ceremony this year at Meru field in front of National Museum near Royal Palace in Phnom Penh under the presidency of his majesty king Norodom Sihamoni. This Royal ceremony also told the local people about the time for planting agricultural crops has arrived and it usually marked the arrival of the rainy season.

The ceremony is an ancient royal rite of Cambodia to mark the traditional beginning of the rice-planting season and predicting the agricultural product this year through releasing sacred oxen to eat seven dishes of agricultural crops including sesame, corn, water, alcohol, rice, grass and played in the middle of the fetors from government officials who attended this ceremony. president of national assembly this year. H.E. Yuth Phuthong try of Agriculture, Forestry and as second person to hold the p After sacred oxen ate dis royal astrologer for the roya microphone that this year, t good and peas product will peas and those dishes are diseld under thousands of spectas, diplomats, and also students H.E. Say Chum, second vice y appointed as holder of plow g, Secretary of State for Minisd Fisheries was also appointed low. splayed food, Mr. Kong Kan, al palace announced through the corn crops will get very again be medium, and this year also there will be a small communicable disease for animals after the sacred oxen ate grass. “New Year’s angle this year will help the country to avoid natural disasters, and convey best wishes for the king, former king queen mother, and local people”.

The water is the life of people and the country and local people need to keep it in reservoir to irrigate the rice fi elds,” he begged. In 2010, Cambodia harvested rice paddy product very well with surplus of 4 million tons of rice product while totally the country gained about 8 million tons of rice products. By 2015, Cambodia is planning to export one million tons of rice products. (SEAW)

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