Cedac buys rice miller to boost imports
The Cambodian Center for Study and Development in Agriculture, or Cedac, has built a $500,000 rice mill in Phnom Penh’s Pur Senchey district in the hope of exporting more milled rice overseas, an official said yesterday. “We expect that in 2013, we would export between 200 tons and 300 tons of milled rice to the U.S., because now we have our own rice mill,” Yang Saing Koma, President of Cedac said, adding that the NGO exported more than 100 tons of milled rice to the U.S. last year without a rice mill. …
