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Investment Needed to Reach Rice Export Target

Cambodia exported just 78,000 tons of milled rice through the first eight months of 2012, and if the government is to reach its target of exporting 1 million tons each year by 2015 the agriculture sector needs more access to financing, participants at the Cambodian ...

Flood's deadly toll contested

Disputed figures surround the flood death toll in Banteay Meanchey province. Yesterday, Banteay Mean­chey city hall spokesman Keo Ratanak rejected reports that more than 10 people had drowned in the province as a result of the flooding, saying: “The exact number is seven.” But according to numbers ...

http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012100259036/National-news/floods-deadly-toll-contested.html

Emirates ask for more rice

As part of its plan to become of the world’s top exporters of rice, Cambodia is looking to increase its rice shipments to the United Arab Emirates, one of the world’s main milled rice importers. Cham Prasidh, Minister of Commerce, met with delegates and businessmen led ...

http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012100259035/Business/uae-asks-for-more-rice.html

Rice exports up 2 percent over last year

Cambodia’s total export of milled rice via the single window office slightly increased by two per cent over the first nine months of this year compared to the same period last year, according to data from the Ministry of Agriculture. Speaking at the Cambodian Rice Forum ...

http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012100259022/Business/rice-exports-up-2-per-cent-over-last-year.html

Kenya eyes Cambodia's rice and flight sectors

Cambodia’s Deputy Prime Ministerand Ambassador of Kenyadiscussedan initiative to connect Phnom Penh and Nairobi through a direct flight to boost tourism and economic activities as well as the conclusion of a rice export deal ...

http://www.etmcambodia.com/viewlatestnews.php?newsid=85

Cambodian farmers squeezed out

Cambodians like pork. The average Cambodian consumes 9.29 kilogrammes of the meat a year and local farmers have long supplemented their incomes by selling an average of two pigs a year. In 2008, Cambodian farmers supplied around 2 million pigs, more than 90% of domestic demand. ...

http://www.bangkokpost.com/business/economics/314912/cambodian-farmers-squeezed-out

Hun Sen Announces Tax on Land Concessions

Prime Minister Hun Sen on Friday amended a directive on economic land concession (ELC) taxes, which will mean that owners of agricultural ELCs must pay tax of $5 on every hectare of land after the fifth year of ownership, according to the Council of Ministers. Mr. ...

Water Wars Feared Over Mekong

China’s dam building spree on the upper Mekong River raises new tensions over water resources Vietnamese President Truong Tan Sang obviously had China in mind when he warned recently that tensions over water resources are not only threatening economic growth but presenting a source of conflict Cambodia, ...

http://www.rfa.org/english/east-asia-beat/mekong-09302012160353.html

Banteay Meanchey Worst Hit as Flood Toll at 11

A total of 11 people have now died due to flooding in the country since mid-September, while the worst affected area, Banteay Meanchey province, continued to suffer amid torrential rain on Thursday night, government officials said on Friday. ...

Kaing Menghun
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/archives/banteay-meanchey-worst-hit-as-flood-toll-at-11-6455/

Alliance an advocate for industry

The executive committee of the Alliance of Rice Producers and Exporters of Cambodia, ARPEC, decided earlier this month to set up a commercial arm to help members get financing for a variety of rice-related activities. According to ARPEC secretary-general Hun Lak and deputy secretary-general David Van, ...

http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/Special-Reports/alliance-an-advocate-for-industry.html

Rising world demand for Cambodian organic rice

Several ASEAN countries, including Cambodia, have witnessed a growing demand for organic rice that local producers cannot satisfy, according to Winfried Scheewe, adviser to the Cambodian Organic Agriculture Association (COrAA). Scheewe says demand for organic rice is on the rise, especially in the Philippines, Malaysia and Singapore, but also ...

http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/Special-Reports/cambodian-organic-rice-on-demand.html

Kenya wants flights and rice imports

The Ambassador of African country Kenya, Richard Titus Ekai, told Deputy Prime Minister Sok An on Wednesday that he would like to see direct flights between Phnom Penh and Nairobi. Sok An met Kenyan Ambassador Ekai at his office to discuss the initiative regarding direct flights ...

http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012092858983/Business/phnom-penh-nairobi-connection-to-boost-the-economy.html

Million-tonne goal still a challenge

It has been more than two years since the Cambodian government issued a rice export policy in June 2010, aiming to export a million tonnes of milled rice by 2015. However, a shortage of capital to buy unmilled rice, known as “paddy”, together with high ...

http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/Special-Reports/million-tonne-goal-still-a-challenge.html

UN Says Cambodia 'Food Secure' Thanks to Gov't Policies

While the global economic crisis weakened the ability of Cambodian households to purchase food, the government’s focus on agricultural production and other policies have since helped alleviate food insecurity in the country, the U.N. Conference on Trade and Development said in a new report. Between June ...

Cambodia receives $3m grant

Cambodia will receive a grant of US$3.3 million from the World Trade Organisation to support rice milling, silk production and development of the Department of International Cooperation, according to Heng Sovannarith, communication officer for Trade Wide Sector Approach. Sovannarith said the Ministry of Commerce would receive the grant from ...

http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012092758950/Business/cambodia-granted-3m-for-development.html

Cambodia's flash floods kill 5, affect 15,510 families in NW province

At least five people were killed and some 15,510 families have been affected by flash floods that have been hitting the country’s Banteay Meanchey province since earlier this month, the latest report of the National Committee for Disaster Management (NCDM) showed Tuesday Some 14,300 houses have ...

http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/735246.shtml

Biomass is more than energy

Rural Cambodian communities are seeing economic benefits as a result of a biomass and farming resilience project run by GERES, a French NGO. As part of the AREA project, 200 households in Kampong Chhnang province are growing 22 varieties of trees to negate the effects of ...

Erika Mudie, P. 10
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/biomass-benefit-rural-cambodia

Rubber up $100 a tonne in a week

The price of rubber jumped to $2,500 per tonne last week after months of the commodity steadily dropping, industry analysts reported. The jump of $100 a tonne, or 4.2 per cent, comes after the price for rubber dropped in June from above $3,000 per tonne, according ...

http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012092558889/Business/rubber-up-100-a-tonne-in-a-week.html

Lone Firm Takes 23,000 Hectares for Plantations in Preah Vihear

A Malaysian company has been granted three tracts of land totaling more than 23,000 hectares for oil palm and rubber plantations in Preah Vihear province, according to documents submitted to the Malaysian stock exchange. The acquisition flout the legal maximum of concession land that a single ...

Thailand's Khon Kaen sees double-digit revenue growth next year

Khon Kaen Sugar Industry KSL.BK, Thailand’s fourth largest sugar producer, expects revenue could grow as much as a fifth next year, fuelled by expansion and a bumper sugarcane crop in 2012/13, the company’s chief executive said on Monday Chalush said sugar production from factories in Laos ...

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/09/24/us-thailand-sugar-idUSBRE88N05S20120924

The bank that likes to say less: Cambodia’s greatest commercial success story is not over yet

AN HOUR’S drive south of Phnom Penh, deep in rural Cambodia, Chrek Heang is doing the rounds of his rapidly expanding poultry and fisheries business. Just four years ago he was living, like most of his countrymen, in a small wooden hut with a tin ...

http://www.economist.com/node/21563302

Board Passes Nearly $850M in Investments

The Cambodian Investment Board approved nearly $850 million worth of investment projects between the start of the year and the end of July, data from the Council for the Development of Cambodia (CDC) shows. According to the data, 90 projects worth $845.26 million were approved during the first ...

CP Group plans more investment in Indochina

Charoen Pokphand Group is leaning towards investing more in Indochinese countries in light of their growing economies and regional trade liberalisation through the Asean Economic Community in 2015. Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar and Vietnam have a wealth of natural resources that could support the group’s products from ...

http://www.nationmultimedia.com/business/CP-Group-plans-more-investment-in-Indochina--30190834.html

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