Saret Bou was away working on their farm when I visited their home but I met his wife who told me that their rice farming had experienced another difficult year since there had not been enough rain. They will be harvesting their rice in February but she told me they expect to make a slight loss (it cost them $250 to prepare their land & harvest their rice & they expect to sell it for $200). However, like most of the entrepreneurs working in agriculture in Cambodia, Saret and his wife are engaged in other income-generating activities in order to supplement the seasonal and often unpredictable income generated from rice farming. Saret's wife told me that they no longer produce 'Sombork Nem' since she was ill last year and the production process was too physically demanding but she now buys and sells chilli peppers and ginger. She gets up at 4am everyday to buy produce from local farmers and then travels to Battambang town by motorbike to sell these to traders in the town. Saret also works as a carpenter when he is not busy working on their farm. These additional activities provide Saret and his family with a decent daily income. Saret's wife told me that although they have not been very lucky with their rice farming over the past few years, a man-made reservoir is being built fairly close to their farming land and once this is complete she thinks this will greatly improve the success of their rice farming especially as they already have a water pump so will be able to pump water in and out of their land.