UAE considering Kingdom’s rice
Cambodia plans to expand its exports of milled rice and other agricultural products to the United Arab Emirates, Minister of Commerce Cham Prasidh said yesterday. The UAE seeks a replacement for the milled rice it would otherwise import from Thailand, where the worst flooding in decades has damaged the country’s all-important rice crop. Cham Prasidh reckoned the UAE could serve as a new market to absorb the Kingdom’s surplus of 2.4 million tonnes of unmilled rice, among other agricultural products, as Cambodia increased its milling capacity…
