Thai policy hits Cambodian cassava exports
Thailand’s restriction on agricultural imports earlier this year caused dramatic declines for Cambodia’s cassava exports during the harvest season, provincial border officials said yesterday.
Cambodia’s exports of cassava reached 288,109 tonnes in the first six months of this year, a decline of 55 per cent from 634,317 tonnes in the corresponding period of 2012, according to statistics from the Ministry of Commerce. Long Thorn, deputy director of the agricultural department in Battambang province, a major centre of cassava production, told the Post yesterday that cassava farmers in the area were seriously affected by the drop in demand after Thailand blocked imports at the beginning of the year to protect its own industry. …
Hor Kimsay
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