When we visited, Khloeurb Bou was out fishing, but we received a warm welcome from his wife and daughters as well as extended family members from the local community.
The family took out a loan to help with their rice harvest, using it to buy fertilizer, good quality rice seed, and a tractor to help harvest it. Around 30% of their loan was to help them grow and harvest high-quality jasmine rice on their 1 hectare of land.
They used the remaining 70% of the loan to help one of their daughters and her husband to set up their own business making different types of iron goods, such as doors, fences and roofing, in another village around 20km away. This daughter was staying with her mother as her husband was away working, and everyone was helping to look after the children.
The family has had loans from other microfinance institutions in the past, but the rate of interest they're charged by CCSF, the Lendwithcare MFI partner in Cambodia, is much lower.
Like other rice farmers we spoke to, they were worried about the low price for rice this season with their jasmine rice getting around $275 per tonne. They supplement their income by catching fish and frogs, and can catch 2-3 kg of fish per day during the rainy season.