Acknowledgements
Authors are grateful to the
Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research, through the
research project ‘Domestic and International market development for
high-value-cattle and beef in South-East Cambodia’ (ACIAR AH/2010/046),
for sponsoring this study as part of the PhD studentship of the
University of New England, Armidale, NSW, Australia. The authors would
like to thank the staff from the Department and Provincial Office of
Animal Health and Production for enabling and supporting the smallholder
farmer survey in the study areas. We also thank project contributors
Kong Reatrey, Soum Veoun and Lorn Sophal, undergraduate students from
the Royal University of Agriculture (Cambodia), independent assistant
researchers, village chiefs, village animal health workers, and finally,
the participating farmers, for their time, effort, kindness and
attitudes to this work.