Rubber industry growth a priority
Cambodia aimed to become one of the region’s main rubber producers over the next few years despite the industry’s low international recognition, officials said during the second Global Rubber Conference, held in Phnom Penh on Friday. To that end, the Kingdom had encouraged companies and investors to expand production capacity, Ly Phalla, director-general of the General Directorate of Rubber Plantations at the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, said. But the government also sought to catalyse so-called downstream operations, which comprised value-added manufacturing using home-grown rubber, to slow the rate of exports from Cambodia, he said…
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