Most of the people of Asia and Cambodians alike live in villages and farm the land or fish to obtain their food. To see how over three-quarters of the of the people of Asia live, you have to leave the cities and visit the villages.

The village, to most Asians, is the center of their lives. All events - birth, marriage, having children and death - occur within the village.

Village is a source of pride and satisfaction. Houses are either in groups or strung out along a canal, river road or hillside.

In Cambodia, the main occupants of a village are farmers and their family engage in traditional agriculture on small farm lots. The majority of farmers live in permanent villages known as sedentary villages.

Each morning you can see workers walking to the fields carrying their tools and leading their water buffalo or cattle. At sunset they return to the shelter of the village.

Other villagers live in temporary shelters until the end of the growing season when they return to a village that is more permanent but which may be moved if new land is needed. These people are called shifting cultivators and they live in the more rugged upland areas. These people mostly are hill-tribes of Cambodia who live in north-eastern provinces, Rattanakiri or Mondulkiri.

The commercial farmers working as small share farmers or on large plantations follow another type of agricultural lifestyle.