Rice taskforce created, again

The Ministry of Commerce set up a new taskforce on Friday to address challenges faced by the Kingdom’s struggling rice industry and assess demands made by members of the Cambodia Rice Federation (CRF), who have decried the ineffectiveness of an earlier taskforce set up by ...

Cheng Sokhorng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/rice-taskforce-created-again

Mango exports to S. Korea stalled

In December, South Korea announced that it planned to import dried mangos from Cambodia and the news was heralded as a sign that the country’s lackluster mango export sector was improving. However, a lack of machinery in the Kingdom has meant that the South Korean ...

Chea Vannak
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/28400/mango-exports-to-s--korea-stalled/

Border control a concern as harvest looms

Tighter border controls by Thai authorities could result in thousands of tonnes of Cambodian agricultural goods getting stranded at the border next month when local farmers begin harvesting their crops, sources warned yesterday. ...

Cheng Sokhorng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/border-control-concern-harvest-looms

Call to revise rubber tax

As the price of natural rubber tumbles due to a slowdown in the global economy and falling demand for the commodity, the Kingdom’s hard hit rubber industry investors are now calling on the government to revise export taxes. ...

Chea Vannak
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/28028/call-to-revise-rubber-tax/

Chinese banana grower keen to start plantation

A Chinese agricultural company has agreed to establish a banana plantation in Cambodia, according to a senior government official. ...

Post Staff
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/chinese-banana-grower-keen-start-plantation

Salt imports spoil market

Though the Kingdom’s existing salt farms in Kampot and Kep produce enough salt to support domestic consumption, industry experts, however, are worried that a flood of the vital commodity from neighboring countries will spoil the market for Cambodian producers. ...

Chea Vannak
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/27907/salt-imports-spoil-market/

Crude palm oil exports rise 116%

The export of crude palm oil (CPO) from agro-industrial conglomerate Mong Reththy Group reached 13,000 metric tons in the first six months this year, up a huge 116 percent compared to the same period last year. ...

Chea Vannak
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/27856/crude-palm-oil-exports-rise-116-/

Rice brand has yet to stick

The private sector’s campaign to develop a single recognisable umbrella brand for Cambodia’s premium varieties of fragrant rice looks increasingly tenuous after a government body voiced objections to the name selected, and argued instead that the country should market each variety of rice under its ...

Cheng Sokhorng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/rice-brand-has-yet-stick

Romduol, Chansensor now rice brands

The National Standards Council (NSC) has endorsed the Phka Romduol and Phka Chansensor varieties to be the Kingdom’s own umbrella brands for fragrant and premium rice, rejecting the Cambodian Rice Federation’s “Angkor Malis” brand name. ...

Sum Manet
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/27317/romduol--chansensor-now-rice-brands/

Demand grows for organic rice

As the demand for organic rice in European and United States markets keeps growing, many local rice millers and exporters are moving quickly and signing contract farming deals to supply them with the premium product. ...

May Kunmakara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/27204/demand-grows-for-organic-rice/

Palm oil yields up as crop matures

Export of crude palm oil from Mong Reththy Group, the Kingdom’s only active producer, doubled during the first half of the year despite prices showing no indication of improving, a company executive said yesterday. ...

Hor Kimsay
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/palm-oil-yields-crop-matures

Thais to build biomass plant for Phnom Penh

Thailand’s Sahacogen (Chonburi) Pcl, an independent producer and distributor of electricity and steam, will form a joint venture with Saha Patthana Inter Holding Pcl, the investment arm of Thailand’s Saha Group, to invest in biomass power plants in Cambodia and Myanmar, according to online business ...

Post Staff
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/thais-build-biomass-plant-phnom-penh

Rice industry body president gets wary vote of confidence

Cambodia’s apex rice industry body held its annual general meeting on Saturday, with its members unanimously re-electing its well-connected incumbent president, Sok Puthyvuth, for a second term in what some are calling a dress rehearsal for his political ascendancy. ...

Cheng Sokhorng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/rice-industry-body-president-gets-wary-vote-confidence

Another armyworm outbreak hits Koh Kong

As farmers across the country continue to recover from crop devastation wrought by a plague of armyworm caterpillars, those in Koh Kong province are facing a new outbreak that is decimating young rice plants, officials said ­on Monday.   ...

Kang Sothear
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/another-armyworm-outbreak-hits-koh-kong-114721/

Export cassava to Thailand, says ministry

Cambodia’s cassava growers have been asked to target Thailand as an export market due to the high demand for the starch-tuber in the neighboring country to produce ethanol, animal feed and flour, while little is done at home to stabilize prices and provide assistance to ...

Chea Vannak
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/26425/export-cassava-to-thailand--says-ministry/

Pepper business adds to Kingdom’s deforestation woes

While the luxury timber trade continues to eat away at Cambodia’s forests, there is another industry that poses a growing threat to the Kingdom’s trees: pepper farms.   ...

Mech Dara and Igor Kossov
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/pepper-business-adds-kingdoms-deforestation-woes

Grow asia targeting six local cash crops

Grow Asia, which formally launched a partnership with Cambodia late last year, will reconvene on June 13 in Phnom Penh to kick-off working groups between the public and private sector, including NGOs, after targeting six crops for market potential. ...

Kali Kotoski and Cheng Sokhorng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/grow-asia-targeting-six-local-cash-crops

Rice Federation to vote for president on July 2

FWith voting set to take place on July 2 to elect the next president of the Cambodian Rice Federation (CRF), the organisation has pledged to further strengthen its mandate, while rice millers and exporters claim they have lost confidence in the organisation’s ability to achieve ...

Cheng Sokhorng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/rice-federation-vote-president-july-2

GI status for Tbong Khmum pepper unlikely

With 72 per cent of Cambodian black pepper production coming from Tbong Khmum province, agriculture officials are calling for it to receive Geographic Indicator (GI) status to promote the spice for export. ...

Cheng Sokhorng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/gi-status-tbong-khmum-pepper-unlikely

Rubber prices fall again

Rubber producers say the price of local rubber has declined again, blaming a slowdown in the global economy and less demand for rubber. ...

Sum Manet
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/25271/rubber-prices-fall-again/

Russia to import agricultural products

Russia has agreed to import agricultural products from Cambodia, while the leaders of the two countries pledged to boost bilateral trade during meetings between the two countries’ senior officials in the past week. ...

Chea Vannak
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/25272/russia-to-import-agricultural-products/

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