Chinese Banana Plantations in Lao District Leave Locals With Little Land to Farm
Concessions of land made by the government of Laos to Chinese banana farms are leaving villagers in one northern district without enough land of their own to feed their families, sources in the communist Southeast Asian country say.
In the Beng district of Oudomxay province in northern Laos, Lao villagers once had sufficient land for farming, an official in the province’s Department of Agriculture and Forestry told RFA’s Lao Service, speaking on condition of anonymity.
RFA’s Lao Service
