In other areas like Andoeuk Hep district , peasants faced Confronting_problem harsh conditions due to the unsustainability and unproductivity of the cotton industry –due to high cost of labour and materials in intensive cotton cultivation , peasants cultivated large areas of land with low yields per hectare .

Centered on rapidly growing fruit plantations , it was a conflict between a ‘ rich ad enterprising Chinese bourgeoisie which has taken possession of the land , and the alienated , indebted , and already semi-independent village communities. ” According to Kiernan , it was clear that “ corruption , the misuse of military and other authority , and increasing impoverishment , in the Samlaut , Pailin and Andoeuk Hep districts , for example , created a vast reservoir of peasant unrest that lacked only a reasonably sophisticated leadership .