Agriculture and fishing
Agriculture
Government to push fish farming
The government has set an annual target of producing 1.2 million tons of fish in farms within the next three years to support high local demand and to reduce the flood of imports from neighboring countries, according to the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries. ...
Chea Vannak
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/28196/government-to-push-fish-farming/
Poor local showing at Phnom Penh’s agro fair
Cambodia’s biggest agriculture industry event of the year received a cool response on its first day as turnout from local agro-businesses was low and overseas suppliers struggled to find potential buyers for the latest agricultural products. ...
Cheng Sokhorng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/poor-local-showing-phnom-penhs-agro-fair
More than 600kg of ivory seized
More than 600 kilograms of ivory were seized on Friday at Sihanoukville Autonomous Port, but the provincial court has yet to receive a complaint about the case from customs officials, a provincial prosecutor told Khmer Times yesterday. ...
San Bunsim
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/28163/more-than-600kg-of-ivory-seized/
Monster sugar mill eats through sugarcane supply
Just three months since starting production, Cambodia’s largest sugar mill is sitting idle due to a shortage of its primary input sugarcane, a provincial Agriculture Ministry official said yesterday. ...
Cheng Sokhorng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/monster-sugar-mill-eats-through-sugarcane-supply
Loan for silos in limbo
There seems to be no definite period of when a $300 million loan from the Chinese government, to build large silos to store rice for milling, will be disbursed to the Cambodian government. ...
Sum Manet
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/28139/loan-for-silos-in-limbo/
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/
Cambodia asks China to double rice quota
Commerce Minister Pan Sorasak lobbied his visiting Chinese counterpart, Gao Hucheng, yesterday to consider doubling Cambodia’s annual rice export quota to China while also proposing a host of agricultural trade agreements. ...
Hor Kimsay
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/cambodia-asks-china-double-rice-quota
Gloomy forecast for Cambodia's rice sector
An industry analyst has issued a dire forecast for Cambodia’s rice sector, claiming the long-grain “white gold” that has been credited with lifting millions of Cambodia’s farmers out of abject poverty, and which seems a natural fit for the Kingdom’s agrarian workforce, is on a ...
Cam McGrath and Cheng Sokhorng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/gloomy-forecast-cambodias-rice-sector
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
Cambodia, China talk business
China’s Commerce Minister Gao Hucheng, who has been on an official visit to Cambodia, will discuss roads, railways, airport construction, agriculture and other projects with senior government officials in the next few days. ...
Ven Rathavong
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/27926/cambodia--china-talk-business/
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/
Government launches framework for livestock law
After eight years in the works, the Agriculture Ministry on Monday circulated the framework for Cambodia’s first law regulating the quality of domestic and imported meat products and livestock. ...
Aun Pheap and Janelle Retka
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/government-launches-framework-for-livestock-law-116161/
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-/
EU asked to increase imports
The National Assembly’s (NA) Second Commission on Economics, Finance, Banking and Auditing yesterday asked the European Union (EU) to increase rice and clothing import quotas from Cambodia, after a discussion on EU subsidies to the Kingdom. ...
Taing Vida
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/27825/eu-asked-to-increase-imports/
Ministry announces ELC tax revenue
The Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries said by the end of the first half of this year, it had collected about $600,000 in taxes from economic land concessions (ELCs) from 21 of the 223 private companies that received ELCs from the government, according to ...
May Titthara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/27701/ministry-announces-elc-tax-revenue/
NZ help for high value veggies
Cambodia has received technical help to develop high-value vegetable crops through assistance provided by the New Zealand-based Plant and Food Research Institute. The research institute recently was awarded a $7 million grant from the New Zealand government to work with small-scale farmers in Cambodia in ...
Sok Chan
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/27582/nz-help-for-high-value-veggies/
Irrigation in Mekong basin threatens VN’s delta
The lower basin of the trans-boundary Mekong River starts from Laos and runs through Thailand, Cambodia and Viet Nam before emptying into the East Sea (South China Sea). Any attempts to interrupt the natural status of the river would pose risks to Viet Nam’s Cuu ...
VietNamNet Bridge Team
http://english.vietnamnet.vn/fms/environment/160889/irrigation-in-mekong-basin-threatens-vn-s-delta.html
Bad meat among goods seized
More than 200kg of old meatballs were seized by the government’s Camcontrol in a crackdown on goods past their use-by dates in Pailin on Wednesday, according to the Ministry of Commerce. ...
San Bunsim
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/27546/bad-meat-among-goods-seized/
ELC holders put onus for disputes on gov’t
Recently appointed Agriculture Minister Veng Sakhon held a first-ever meeting with economic land concession (ELC) grantees yesterday and was promptly met with a barrage of complaints. ...
Phak Seangly and Chin Sreyleap
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/elc-holders-put-onus-disputes-govt
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
Insolvency looms in rice sector
The specter of insolvency looms large over the businesses of rice millers in the Kingdom as the government drags its foot in providing emergency loans to bail out the sector, currently reeling from the aftereffects of a severe drought and facing stiff competition from low-grade ...
Chea Vannak
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/27470/insolvency-looms-in-rice-sector/
More rice name confusion
The seeds of confusion in the rice industry have been sown further. After endorsing the Phka Romduol and Phka Chansensor varieties to be the Kingdom’s own umbrella brands for fragrant and premium rice last week, the National Standards Council (NSC) said yesterday it did not ...
Chea Vannak
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/27410/more-rice-name-confusion/
Cambodia: Farmers eager to grow organic veg over rice
Cambodian farmers are eager to cultivate organic vegetables rather than rice, as not only do vegetables command higher prices, but they are also quicker to grow. According to the World Bank, vegetables fetch an income of $1575 per hectare while it is $544 per hectare ...
Fresh Plaza Team
http://www.freshplaza.com/article/160852/Cambodia-Farmers-eager-to-grow-organic-veg-over-rice
Germany urged to support agriculture
Deputy Prime Minister Sok An yesterday called on the German government to further support development of the Kingdom’s agricultural sector and also boost bilateral trade and tourism between Cambodia and Germany. ...
May Kunmakara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/27362/germany-urged-to-support-agriculture/