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Cambodia: Change: Initiatives How a Rice Bank Works A rice bank is a place where everyone in a community can store their spare rice. A few months after harvest, when families start to run out of food, they can borrow rice from the bank and pay it back next harvest. It's much cheaper than borrowing from the moneylenders.  How a Cow Bank Works 
Cows are very important in Cambodia. They pull the plough, their dung keeps the fields fertile and families can make money by selling the calves. Families that don't have two cows of their own have to pay a lot of money to hire someone else's cows to plough their fields. The trouble is, cows are very expensive - up to 1 million riel (about NZ$540) for a good one. The Samrong Tong development programme is helping by lending the poorest families a cow. They look after it until it produces a calf. Then they keep the calf and give the cow to another family.
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