Rice exports up, but cash shortage hitting

Rice exports for the first quarter of the year jumped 8.5 percent to 162,220 tons from 149,464 tons for the same period last year, but in March the figure dropped 14.5 percent, or 9,592 tons, to 66,275 tons in the face of competition from Thailand, Vietnam and India and a shortage of capital for buyers to pay growers, according to Secretariat of One Window Service for Rice Export Formality. …

Sok Chan
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