Cambodia’s rice exports up 107 pct in 8 months
Cambodia has seen a remarkable rise in the exports of milled rice in the first eight months of the year due to increasing demand on international markets, official figures showed Wednesday. The data, from the single window secretariat for facilitating milled rice exports, recorded that the country has exported 236, 730 tons of milled rice during January-August period this year, up 107 percent from 114,070 tons over the same period last year. … With over 80 percent of the population being farmers, the country produced 9.31 million tons of paddy rice last year. Of this amount, besides local consumption, it had around 3 million tons of milled rice left over for export this year. …
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