Thanks to Oxfam Unwrapped, struggling farmers in Preah Vihear Province, Cambodia can raid the piggy bank to cope if the rice crop fails.
In previous years, a poor rice yield meant farmers risked falling into debt to feed their family. But then farmers from four local communes each received a pig as 'oinkment' for their troubles...
An Oxfam Unwrapped project identified the need to give some of the region's poor farmers something beside rice farming to provide a family income. Step forward, our curly-tailed saviours. We distributed 57 pigs plus training in animal care and pig husbandry.
Pigs require only natural food, which is plentiful in the village. Now the farmers say that alongside agricultural activities, pig raising is a valuable source of income to support their families. A ‘squeal’ success, you might say...