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Chinese Banana Plantations Lose Their Appeal in Laos as Pollution Concerns Grow

A boom in banana demand led to heavy agricultural investment in northern Laos as Chinese investors offered strong financial incentives to farmers to change land management practices. There was many negative impacts linked to agricultural chemical use, water pollution and labor and health conditions. This archived news article profiles the situation.

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စာတမ်းအမျိုးအစား Archived web content
စာရွက်စာတမ်း၏ ဘာသာစကား
  • အင်္ဂလိပ်ဘာသာစကား
ခေါင်းစဉ်များ
  • Agricultural management systems and technologies
  • Economic land concessions and plantations
  • Environment and natural resources
  • Pest management
  • Water pollution
ပထဝီဧရိယာ (spatial range)
  • လာအိုပြည်သူ့ဒီမိုကရက်တစ်သမ္မတနိုင်ငံ
နယ်ပယ်
  • Bokeo
  • Luangnamtha
  • Phongsaly
  • Xayabouly
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ပြင်ဆင်ချက် 2016
ခွင့်ပြုချက် CC-BY-3.0-IGO
ပူးတွဲရေးသားသူ (တစ်ဦးချင်းစီ) Ounkeo Souksavanh, Brooks Boliek
ထုတ်ဝေသည့်နေရာ Washington, USA
ထုတ်ဝေသူ Radio Free Asia
ထုတ်ဝေသည့်ရက်စွဲ 2016
အဓိကစကားလုံးများ banana plantations,chinese investment,chemicals
တင်ခဲ့သည့်ရက်စွဲ ဇန်နဝါရီ 3, 2018, 16:31 (UTC)
ပြန်လည်ပြင်ဆင်သည့်ရက်စွဲ ဇန်နဝါရီ 22, 2018, 00:36 (UTC)