Rice

Cambodia is less likely to be affected by the El Nino weather pattern and the country is expected to receive rainfall this week, the local sources quoted the spokesman of the Ministry of Water Resource and Meteorology. ...

Cambodia has exported around 283,825 tons of milled rice in the first six months of 2015, up about 60% from around 177,928 tons exported during the same period last year, Phnom Penh Post quoted data from Secretariat of One Window Service for Rice Export Formality. ...

Cambodia’s ambitious goal of exporting one million tons of rice this year has been quietly dropped. A follow-up export goal of 600,000 tons also is falling by the wayside. Undermining these goals is the reality of the rice paddies: labor emigration to Thailand, high costs for ...

The National Food Authority (NFA) of the Philippines has re-invited bids for the remaining 100,000 tons from the June 5 tender, BusinessworldOnline quoted Reuters. The NFA has reportedly invited governments of Thailand, Vietnam and Cambodia, with which the Philippines has bilateral agreements, to send their bids ...

Viet Nam won a bid for rice supply to the Philippines late last week, with an offer of US$410.12 per tonne, according to the Philippines’ National Food Authority (NFA). ...

Cambodia exported 243,025 tons of milled rice in the first five months of 2015, a 64 percent rise from the 148,262 tons over the same period last year, according to an official report on Sunday. ...

Vietnam offered Friday the lower price for the additional rice supply that the Philippines will import to increase its buffer stock for the lean season, the National Food Authority said. NFA earlier invited Cambodia, Thailand and Vietnam to supply an additional 250,000 metric tons of rice ...

Vietnam, the world’s third largest rice exporter after India and Thailand, has raised by 3% the export price floor for the 25% broken rice to $350 a ton as it prepares for a tender in the Philippines, traders said. ...

Cambodian rice exporters are expressing concern that the country’s rice exports to the European Union (EU) under the Everything But Arms (EBA) agreement have been facing a stiff competition from Myanmar, which also exports rice to the EU under the EBA agreement, according to local ...

A Cambodian rice exporter is expected to take part in an Iraqi bid for 30,000 tons of milled rice late this month, a company’s representative said Wednesday. ...

The government of Cambodia is planning to double rice exports to China in 2015-16 (May-April) to around 200,000 tons, local sources quoted the Ministry of Commerce spokesman as saying. ...

Cambodia exported around 149,464 tons of rice the first three months of 2015, up about 77% from around 84,331 tons exported during the same period in 2014, according to data from the Secretariat of One Window Service for Rice Export Formality (SOWS-REF). Cambodia exported 387,061 ...

Cambodia exported 149,464 tons of rice in the first three months of 2015, up 77 percent over the same period last year, according to data of the Secretariat of One Window Service for Rice Export Formality. ...

The Oryza White Rice Index (WRI), a weighted average of global white rice export quotes, ended the week at about $411 per ton, down about $4 ton from a week ago, down about $8 per ton from a month ago and down about $42 per ...

Vietnam has gained a substantial share of Hong Kong’s rice market at the expense of Thailand, resulting from fierce competition over the past 10 years. Thailand’s market share in the first month of this year was up to 65.1 per cent versus Vietnam’s 26.3 per ...

Neighbors Vietnam and Thailand have bagged contracts to supply a total of 500,000 metric tons (MT) of rice to boost the Philippines’ buffer stock in time for this year’s lean months, an official from the National Food Authority (NFA) said yesterday. Existing bilateral rice agreements ...

Currentlt, CEDAC exports fragrant organic rice to the U.S. and Hong Kong. But is exploring export opportunities to Arab countries as well. According to the CEDAC’s organic rice Export Officer, though the price of organic rice is higher, prices are much stable in the international ...

Despite failing in its latest attempt to win the Philippine government’s bid to import rice, Cambodia will once again throw its hat into the ring when the offer is reissued, industry representatives said yesterday. ...

Cambodia exported 204,000 tons of milled rice in the first seven months of 2014, down 1.6 percent from 207,370 tons over the same period of last year, according to official data released on Tuesday.  Sixty-four companies have brokered Cambodian rice for 54 countries and regions around ...

In December 2011, the managing director of Megagreen Imex Cambodia, Renne Outh, proudly announced that his firm had inked a $21 million deal to be the first to ship Cambodian rice to the Philippines. Nearly two and a half years on, not a single Cambodian grain ...

The UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has estimated Cambodia’s 2014 rice exports to increase slightly to 1.2 million tons over that in 2013 due to increased production. The FAO reports that its exports estimate includes unofficial exports of milled as well as paddy rice ...

The Ministry of Economy and Finance (MoEF) will scrap customs fees for rice exporters from May 1 in an effort to reduce production costs and boost Cambodia’s competitiveness in the sector, according to a letter obtained by the Post. “[The ministry] has agreed to eliminate charges ...

As Thailand sells its rice reserves and reforms in Myanmar are rewarded with more access to markets abroad, Cambodia’s total exports of milled rice are on the decline, falling more than 10 per cent in the first quarter of this year compared with the same ...

Prime Minister Hun Sen said that he would like to see the stronger economic and trade cooperation between Cambodia and Brunei. And Cambodia want to increase the rice export to Brunei. ...