Thais ask Cambodia to curb cassava exports
Thai cassava farmers have asked Cambodia to stop exporting the commodity into Thailand in an attempt to keep prices high and avoid saturating the market, officials said yesterday. Sao Sarat, Pailin provincial cabinet chief, said that Thai government officials representing local cassava farmers met with Pailin provincial authorities two weeks ago to request that Cambodia drop its daily from nearly 2,000 tons a day to no more than 370 tons a day…