Agriculture and fishing

At a meeting with 1,400 people in attendance in Ro-ang commune of Kampong Cham province’s Kampong Siem district on April 30, Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Veng Sakhon advised them to work on recovering their family’s economic prospects by resuming all types of agriculture ...

Minister of Labor and Vocational Training has encouraged Thailand’s CP Cambodia Co., Ltd to further increase its orders for Cambodian agricultural products. ...

Fishing communities in Kampot and Kep provinces are under threat as a coastal tourism project linked to the wife of a government minister is reportedly moving forward, the Cambodian Center for Human Rights said. ...

The Stung Treng Provincial Authority has informed all fishermen, including those doing illegally, to stop all fishing activities starting May 1 until September 30 as the season to catch fish is over with the fish spawning period starting. ...

Trading companies in the agricultural, fishery and animal production sectors are being urged by the overseeing ministry to apply for licences, permits and certificates in electronic form to fulfil trade regulatory requirements as part of the Cambodian National Single Window (NSW) system. ...

Bilateral trade between Cambodia and Vietnam totalled $1.72205 billion in the first quarter of 2022, representing a 13.6 per cent increase from the $1.5153 billion recorded in the corresponding period last year, according to Customs. ...

Kampot authorities have cracked down on 21 fishing crimes in the first three months of the year, and claim that most offences were committed by Khmer-Muslims, while Vietnamese fishermen seem to be avoiding illegal fishing in Cambodia. ...

Battambang provincial Fisheries Administration apprehended perpetrators of 38 fishery crimes and confiscated fishing nets spanning a total of 18,560m in the first quarter of this year, according to a new report.   ...

Battambang provincial Fisheries Administration apprehended perpetrators of 38 fishery crimes and confiscated fishing nets spanning a total of 18,560m in the first quarter of this year, according to a new report. ...

Vietnam’s Ministry of Industry and Trade (MoIT) has issued a circular stipulating the import of rice and dried tobacco leaves originating from Cambodia under tariff quotas for 2021 and 2022. ...

Willughbeia edulis, Korlan, Burmese grape, and some wild fruits have already started to be harvested from the forest in Angkor Park, providing additional income for local people, said the APSARA National Authority. ...

The Sansom Mlup Prey Organisation (SMP) announced it is recruiting farmers to join its IBIS Rice programme. Members will carry out organic rice cultivation and wildlife rescue in four provinces – Stung Treng, Ratanakkiri, Mondulkiri and Preah Vihear. ...

The joint task force from different institutions to tackle illegal fishing in Tonle Sap Lake has used Kampong Phlok port as the meeting point to coordinate the crackdown on illegal fishing in the lake.  ...

The inter-ministries finalised the discussion on the draft of the agricultural development policy for 2021-2030  yesterday, drawing high hopes for the policy to promote agricultural development with a competitive, sustainable and inclusive approach. ...

On the orders of Prime Minister Hun Sen, provincial authorities in the provinces around the Tonle Sap Lake have made more than 10 arrests during an operation focused on enforcing fishing laws.  ...

The agriculture ministry has urged longan growers and relevant private sector companies to register their plantations and packaging plants “as soon as possible” to be able to export the fruit to China, as negotiations on the export process reach their final stages. ...

Cambodia netted more than $77 million from rubber latex and wood exports in the first two months of 2022, according to data released by the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fishery’s General Directorate of Rubber. ...

The protected Geographical Indication (GI) of Mondulkiri wild honey will be officially celebrated on March 27 at the Sen Monorom Park in Moldulkiri province’s Sen Monorom town, according to the Ministry of Commerce. ...

Authorities in provinces surrounding the Tonle Sap lake have stepped up clamping down on illegal fishing believed to have gone unchecked a day after Prime Minister Hun Sen ordered them to do so. ...

Fresh Cambodian mango exports to China – both direct and overland via Vietnam – have been slammed by a double whammy of fierce price competition with nearby countries and the re-imposition of Covid-19 restrictions in the East Asian nation amid a reported resurgence in coronavirus ...

Prime Minister Hun Sen has ordered the military to use helicopter patrols to prevent fisheries-related crimes around the Tonle Sap Lake and to help apprehend any large-scale fisheries offenders and prosecute them to ensure the sustainability of the lake’s fish population. ...

Prime Minister Hun Sen has spoken highly of the agriculture sector, noting its key contribution to realising the country’s goal of becoming an upper middle-income economy by 2030 and a high-income nation by 2050. ...

Chinese President Xi Jinping has pledged to increase the country’s imports of milled rice from Cambodia and indicated its willingness to purchase other agricultural products from the Kingdom after a free trade agreement (FTA) came into force. ...

Dry-season rice cultivation has already exceeded the amount planned by more than a third, according to the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries. ...