Kingdom takes steps to attract milled-rice buyers
A nationwide survey was under way by the Ministry of Commerce’s Rice Exporter Union to measure Cambodia’s milled-rice industry in order to give international buyers an accurate picture of the Kingdom’s current capacity, insiders said yesterday. Although data for the survey was still being collected, those insiders pointed to Cambodia’s well-known problems such as a lack of agricultural processing capacity and inferior rice-seed quality. Rice Exporter Union chairman Thon Virak, who also serves as general director of the state-owned Green Trade Company, said poor seed quality was a big impediment to attracting foreign buyers…
