Chin Choeun, 54, climbs down a palm tree with sap collected at Trapang Ampel village, outside Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Friday, March 15, 2024. Choeun spends nearly 12 hours a day collecting sap from palm trees that he and his wife turn into palm sugar. (AP Photo/Heng Sinith)
Chin Choeun, 54, collects sap from a palm tree during harvest season at Trapang Ampel village, outside Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Friday, March 15, 2024. Choeun spends nearly 12 hours a day collecting sap from palm trees that he and his wife turn into palm sugar. (AP Photo/Heng Sinith)
Chin Ith, left, adjusts a vessel of palm sap onto a fire to make palm sugar at Trapang Ampel village, outside Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Friday, March 15, 2024. (AP Photo/Heng Sinith)
Chin Choeun, 54, gathers sap collected from palm trees to make sugar during harvest season at Trapang Ampel village, outside Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Friday, March 15, 2024. (AP Photo/Heng Sinith)
Chin Choeun, 54, walks with sap collected from palm trees at Trapang Ampel village, outside Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Friday, March 15, 2024. (AP Photo/Heng Sinith)
A farmer drops palm fruit from a tree during sap harvest season at Trapang Ampel village, outside Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Friday, March 15, 2024. The palm tree is considered the official tree of Cambodia. (AP Photo/Heng Sinith)
Chin Ith gathers palm sap collected from palm trees by her husband Chin Choeun, center, at Trapang Ampel village, outside Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Friday, March 15, 2024. Ith boils the sap over an open fire, stirring it until the right consistency of palm sugar is achieved. (AP Photo/Heng Sinith)
Chin Choeun, 54, walks with sap collected from palm trees to make sugar, during harvest season at Trapang Ampel village, outside Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Friday, March 15, 2024. (AP Photo/Heng Sinith)
Chin Ith checks the consistency of palm sugar being made from the sap of palm at Trapang Ampel village, outside Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Friday, March 15, 2024. (AP Photo/Heng Sinith)
Chin Choeun, 54, cuts palm flowers to extract its sap during harvest season at Trapang Ampel village, outside Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Friday, March 15, 2024. Choeun spends nearly 12 hours a day collecting sap from palm trees that he and his wife turn into palm sugar. (AP Photo/Heng Sinith)
Swings made from tire hang in the house of palm sugar farmer Chin Choeun at Trapang Ampel village, outside Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Friday, March 15, 2024. (AP Photo/Heng Sinith)
Chin Choeun, 54, climbs down a palm tree at Trapang Ampel village, outside Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Friday, March 15, 2024. Choeun spends nearly 12 hours a day collecting sap from palm trees that he and his wife turn into palm sugar. (AP Photo/Heng Sinith)
Chin Ith boils palm juice to turn it to sugar at Trapang Ampel village, outside Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Friday, March 15, 2024. Her husband Chin Choeun collects sap from palm trees, which produces roughly 10 kilos (22 pounds) of sugar daily. They earn about 100,000 riel ( $25) a day from selling the sugar to local vendors. (AP Photo/Heng Sinith)