Cambodia posts sharpest increase in rice output among major producers
Cambodia posted the sharpest increase in production among the world’s major rice producers between 2000 and 2010, the Food and Agricultural Organization said in a report released Wednesday. The 2013 edition of the UN agency’s Statistical Yearbook showed that Cambodia was the world’s 12th largest rice producer in 2010 with output of 8.25 million tonnes. That represented an average annual growth rate of 7.4 percent since 2000. The only rice producers with sharper increases were in Africa and outside the world’s top 20 producers. … Despite the boom in Cambodia’s rice production, the FAO report showed that yields averaged only 3.0 tonnes a hectare, below the world average of 4.3 tonnes a hectare and a regional average of 4.1 tonnes a hectare in Southeast Asia. …
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