BBC News Global News Podcast has highlighted partners of the American Soybean Association’s WISHH program in a report on how sustainable technology improves the lives of Cambodians. The series, Female Founders: Green Tech in the Blue Economy, discusses the solar domes for drying fish, which were installed as part of WISHH’s USDA Food for Progress CAST-Cambodia Project.
WISHH introduced the dome to the interviewee as a way to boost food safety of Cambodian fish as well as it reduces food spoilage and waste linked to greenhouse gases. The domes also allow for 24-hour drying of fish instead of drying them outside in the sun where they attract birds and insects. BBC highlights two WISHH partners, beginning with Yorn Samnang, the owner of fish drying and distribution enterprise Samnang Sothea. Samnang received a loan through CAST to purchase the fish solar drying dome and has paid of the loan as well as grew his business supplying high-quality fish. He sells to another WISHH partner featured in the podcast series, Mary Lep. She is the managing director of Unica food company in Cambodia as well as a board member of the Cambodian Aquaculturist Association that CAST has helped launch.
WISHH’s CAST Project accelerates production of high-demand fish species for the Cambodian market and develop a lasting aquaculture industry that recognizes the value of U.S. soy protein in feed.