Agricultural commodities, processing and products
Crop products and commodities
$80 million requested from RDB for upcoming harvests
The Cambodia Rice Federation (CRF) has requested the state-run Rural Development Bank of Cambodia (RDB), reserve an additional $30 million to purchase paddy from the Kingdom’s rice farmers during the upcoming harvest seasons. ...
Chhut Bunthoeun
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50701110/80-million-requested-from-rdb-for-upcoming-harvests
Rice farmers struggle during drought season
For more than four months, people living in some rural areas in the provinces of Pursat and Battambang have been suffering from water shortages. Canals, streams and ponds have dried due to high temperatures during this year’s dry season. ...
Pech Sotheary
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50700262/rice-farmers-struggle-during-drought-season
Rice association responds to stockpiling concerns
As fears of Covid-19 drive people to stockpile food, some fear supermarkets may run out of essential commodities like rice. ...
Thou Vireak
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/rice-association-responds-stockpiling-concerns
Ministry moves to implement draft policy for cashew nut production
The Ministry of Commerce has formed a working group to draft a strategic policy on cashew nut development in Cambodia. ...
Chea Vannak
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50695612/ministry-moves-to-implement-draft-policy-for-cashew-nut-production
Future is bright for nation’s rice farmers
In the wake of concerns about the detrimental impact of the European Commission’s partial EBA withdrawal on Cambodia’s rice export industry, there is positive news. As the country’s most important crop, around 600,000 tonnes of jasmine and fragrant rice are exported every year, according to the ...
Sok Chan
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50694317/future-is-bright-for-nations-rice-farmers
Rubber exports increase 17%
Cambodia exported 27,445 tonnes of rubber worth $40 million in the first month of the year, up 17 per cent compared to the same period last year, Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries official Khuon Phalla told The Post on Thursday. ...
Thou Vireak
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/rubber-exports-increase-17
Salt production yields hit another record low year
Salt production last year hit another low because of poor weather conditions and a shortage of labour, figures from Ministry of Industry and Handicraft show. A total of 18,430 tonnes has been produced, creating a call for the condiment to be imported. ...
Chea Vannak
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50692903/salt-production-yields-hit-another-record-low-year
Red-tape eliminated for agro-product exporters
The Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries has announced that rice exporters and agro-product exporters can now attain sanitary and phytosanitary certificates at one window service centres to streamline the process. The ministry’s decision was made after a Cambodia Rice Federation proposal last week. ...
Thou Vireak
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/red-tape-eliminated-agro-product-exporters
Banana exports solid but mangoes struggling as Novel Coronavirus affects fresh fruit markets
Fresh bananas are still being exported to the Chinese market. However, fresh mangoes to the South Korean market have been badly hit by the Noval Coronavirus effect on fresh fruit markets. ...
Chhut Bunthoeun
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50692103/banana-exports-solid-but-mangoes-struggling-as-novel-coronavirus-affects-fresh-fruit-markets
Organic vegetable retailer unveils QR code scheme for origin source
Organic vegetable retailer Natural Agriculture Village has introduced QR codes on its product packaging, which will allow consumers to see where their produce comes from. Natural Agriculture Village president Bun Sieng, who is also a member of local distributor Green Gold, told The Post on Sunday ...
Thou Vireak
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/organic-vegetable-retailer-unveils-qr-code-scheme-origin-source
Cambodia plans to export rice to Kuwait
Cambodia plans to export milled rice to Kuwait, according to senior officials at the Ministry of Commerce, in what was described as market diversification. The ministry announced the purchase agreement has been scheduled for signing next month. ...
Chea Vannak
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50688095/cambodia-plans-to-export-rice-to-kuwait
Cassava price remains steady
The price of cassava in provinces bordering Thailand remains steady during the 2019-2020 harvest season which is currently about 60 per cent complete, officials said. Cambodia’s cassava is mostly grown in Battambang, Pailin, Banteay Meanchey, Kratie and Kampong Thom provinces. The crop is planted in ...
Hin Pisei
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/cassava-price-remains-steady
Cashew nut exports nearly double in 2019
Cambodia exported some 202,318 tonnes of cashew nuts last year to foreign markets, up nearly 100 per cent from 2018’s 101,973 tonnes, a Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries report said. Khan Samban, director of the ministry’s Department of Agro-Industry, told The Post that the ...
Thou Vireak
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/cashew-nut-exports-nearly-double-2019
Government’s study aims to expand rubber revenue
The General Directorate of Rubber announced a joint study on family-owned rubber plantations in three provinces to better understand how growers have responded to the sharp drop in rubber prices over the past nine years. The average cost of rubber has fallen from around $4,600 ...
Thou Vireak
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/governments-study-aims-expand-rubber-revenue
Corn industry maintains hope for rebound amid plummeting prices
Total corn exports dropped by more than 40 per cent on 2018 due to last year’s drought and pest damage, industry insiders said. Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries data showed that last year the Kingdom exported 119,993 tonnes of red corn – down 41.23 ...
Hin Pisei
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/corn-industry-maintains-hope-rebound-amid-plummeting-prices
As rice exports to EU drop, dealers are reducing prices due to tariffs
Government data showed that Cambodia’s rice exports to the European Union had dropped by 30 percent in 2019, after the economic bloc imposed tariffs at the start of last year. Ministry of Agriculture data showed that rice exports dropped from 300,000 tons in 2018 to around ...
Special status pepper sales not so spicy
About 120 tonnes of Kampot pepper, which received geographical indication (GI) certification from the European Union in 2019, was harvested last year but less than half of the yield was sold in the traditional way through the Kampot Pepper Promotion Association. ...
Chea Vannak
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50676343/special-status-pepper-sales-not-so-spicy
Boosting domestic vegetable production to curb imports
The country planted a variety of vegetables covering a total 58,000 hectares of land nationwide by the end of 2019 that produced 68 per cent of local market demand, according to Ministry of Agriculture’s spokesperson Srey Vuthy. By 2023, he wants this to increase to 63,000 ...
Chhut Bunthoeun
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50676080/boosting-domestic-vegetable-production-to-curb-imports
PM urges farmers to diversify crops amid shortage of water
Prime Minister Hun Sen on Thursday called for farmers to diversify beyond rice during the dry season, amid meteorologists’ warnings that a decline in water levels due to drought will adversely impact output and prices. ...
May Kunmakara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/pm-urges-farmers-diversify-crops-amid-shortage-water
Hun Sen wants foreign money to invest in agro-processing
Cambodia’s Prime Minister is calling for more investments on agriculture processing and technology industry in the Kingdom. Speaking at a graduation ceremony yesterday, Mr Hun Sen said that more than 2 million hectares of paddy were harvested among the 2.7 million hectares of cultivated land ...
Sok Chan
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50674133/hun-sen-wants-foreign-money-to-invest-in-agro-processing
Hun Sen defends free market rice pricing in the Kingdom
Prime Minister Hun Sen yesterday defended the Kingdom’s stance in letting the free market determine the price of rice and blasted critics by saying Cambodia is not a communist country. Fluctuations in the price of rice have some farmers calling on the government to set ...
Ben Sokhean
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50674238/hun-sen-defends-free-market-rice-pricing-in-the-kingdom
Exporter urges Kampot pepper farmers to focus on quality
An exporter has asked farmers to focus on producing high-quality pepper by following strict standards to strengthen demand for their products abroad. According to the Kampot Pepper Promotion Association, 50 percent of Kampot pepper is exported to the EU, while 30 percent is consumed internally. ...
Chhut Bunthoeun
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50673130/exporter-urges-kampot-pepper-farmers-to-focus-on-quality
WFP project blends regular and fortified rice
The World Food Programme Cambodia and Green Trade Company yesterday launched a project to blend regular rice with fortified rice to be used to provide free breakfast for children in targeted schools next year. ...
Pech Sotheary
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50671914/wfp-project-blends-regular-and-fortified-rice
Mango exporters urged to set up hi-tech packaging plants
Ngin Chhay, the director-general of the General Directorate of Agriculture at the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, on Thursday urged the private sector to set up more mango packaging plants that comply with South Korea and China’s hygiene and quality standards. ...
Thou Vireak
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/mango-exporters-urged-set-hi-tech-packaging-plants