2010-2016: Fruit tree and diversification
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In addition, it was also observed a new trend of converting to perennial crops among wealthy farmers. Those are mainly fruit trees such as “Pailin longan” and mango which, based on the results of Normalize Different Vegetation Index (NDVI) trend analyzes with Modis images, the annual vegetation index changed from negative to positive on some places.
The hilly and mountainous forests were converted wherever possible to farmed land and it was mostly still used to grow maize for too shallow soil depth for cassava. To have continuous cash flow along the year, the is an increasing diversification with vegetables and livestock was seen among medium farms
