Shovelling manure to make fertiliser, weeding and organising harvests keep former civil servant Lai Poon Piau pretty flat out when he is on his pepper farm in Kampot in south-western Cambodia.
Mr Lai visits the 10ha farm, where he grows Kampot peppercorn, every other month and stays for a week each time.
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