Falling Crop Prices Threaten Boom in Small Farms

The Wall Street JournalNovember 18, 2008 BANLUNG, Cambodia -- A few years ago, this dusty frontier town was little more than a junction of dirt tracks in the jungle, with a handful of wooden buildings and beat-up old cars. Then global crop prices shot up, and Banlung became a boomtown.Farmers swarmed in and cleared land to plant rubber, soybeans and other cash crops. In similar ways, small