Cambodian milled rice exports rise slightly

Cambodian milled rice exports to international markets grew only 2 per cent year-on-year, leading rice trading experts to express concern that the goal of exporting a million tonnes in 2015 cannot be accomplished. Hean Vanhorn, deputy director general of the Ministry of Agriculture and director of the single window secretariat for facilitating milled rice exports, said rice export figures at the end of 2012 shows there were only 205,717 tonnes exported, an increase of 1.9 per cent compared to 201,899 tonnes in 2011. …

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