Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen Tuesday called on each local community to mobilize and use its potential resources to promote specialization in carrying out the One Village, One Product (OVOP) policy.

"We should focus our attention on promoting local productions by maintaining the quality and quantity of the products to timely response to the market," said Hun Sen while addressing the National Conference on OVOP.

By doing so, Cambodia can strengthen the competitiveness of the local products, and the overspending on imports can be gradually reduced through promoting import substitution, he said.

Under this framework, he said, the government will continue to push the OVOP movement to foster innovative ideas and self-confidence of rural people based on four important principles, he said.

The principles are to "find the production method that is suitable to the village's conditions and meet the market demand; enable and encourage people to produce by improving market access, providing credit, transferring technology and supplying seeds; build management capacity and human resources; and enable the people to establish agricultural community to ensure price stability of the product," he added.

OVOP has been initiated by Cambodia for a long time to include products like baskets, pottery, silk and food.

The concept is also put into practice in many countries around the world such as Thailand, Philippines, China, South Korea, Malaysia and some other countries in Africa and America.