HLH to Expand With Corn, Rice Plantations

18 August 2011
The Cambodia Daily
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Singapore-listed firm HLH Group is planning to expand its presence in Cambodia with 90,000 hectares of corn, rice and soybean plantations planned over the next decade in Kompong Speu and Koh Kong provinces, an official at the company said yesterday. HLH Group came under scrutiny in early 2010 after members of Cambodia’s last remaining indigenous Suoy community said they faced extinction as a result of their loss of land to the firm’s existing 10,000-hectare concession inside the Phnom Aural Wildlife Sanctuary in Oral district…Johnny Ong, deputy chairman of HLH Group, said in an interview in Phnom Penh that the firm has exported 6,000 tons of corn and soybeans to Vietnam last year. This year, HLH is expecting to export 30,000 tons, and in 2012, that number is expected to rise to 1000,000 tons, he said.

 (Simon Marks and Kuch Naren, p 29)
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