Issues with Kingdom’s rice exports

Cambodian rice trader TTY Corporation has said the Kingdom cannot meet a new 200,000-tonne export quota for shipping high-quality rice to China. State-owned Sinograin’s order for three varieties of milled fragrant rice was a deviation from an agreement struck with TTY in August, TTY deputy director-general Heng Sarath said on Sunday. The original 200,000-tonne deal – about 20 per cent of the Cambodian government’s 2015 rice export goal – was for low-quality milled rice, Heng Sarath said. The Kingdom simply could not fill the new order, he said. “In Cambodia, [some varieties of fragrant rice] are still not grown widely. We need to export tens of thousands of tonnes of this rice, so meeting the quota remains unlikely,” said Heng Sarath…

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