PHNOM PENH, Aug. 14 (Xinhua) -- The Cambodian Commerce Ministry and U.N. Development Program have zeroed in on 19 Cambodian goods to promote for niche markets by improving production and packaging standards, local media reported Thursday.
These include 14 agricultural products such as corn, rice and livestock, and five service products, ranging from tourism to light manufacturing and labor, English-language newspaper the Phnom Penh Post said.
"We are promoting and developing a strategy to increase the quality and quantity of those products," Sok Darith of the Commerce Ministry's Trade Promotion Department was quoted as saying on Wednesday.
Cambodia's farmers and manufacturers are losing out to regional competitors who have higher quality goods and better business models, trade officials said.
Cambodia exports garments to the United States, European Union, Canada and Japan, but has failed to diversify its other sectors, with its agriculture bound largely for Thailand and Vietnam.
These include 14 agricultural products such as corn, rice and livestock, and five service products, ranging from tourism to light manufacturing and labor, English-language newspaper the Phnom Penh Post said.
"We are promoting and developing a strategy to increase the quality and quantity of those products," Sok Darith of the Commerce Ministry's Trade Promotion Department was quoted as saying on Wednesday.
Cambodia's farmers and manufacturers are losing out to regional competitors who have higher quality goods and better business models, trade officials said.
Cambodia exports garments to the United States, European Union, Canada and Japan, but has failed to diversify its other sectors, with its agriculture bound largely for Thailand and Vietnam.
2 comments:
Poor Khmer.
We have opportunity to promote our products since long, but our GVT are too busy in earning pocket money and to bribe their bosses.
Quality Control body of GVT should wake up and do your job. We produce rice, and other agricultural produce, and we earn less, while our neighboring countries (VN-TH) earn credit from international bodies as No 1-2 exporter of agricultural products. They buy rice from Khmer farmers, and they sell us back sometimes at double or thrice of price they bought from us.
I beg Q.C, please help strengthen GVT policy to boast Cambodian farm products at international markets.
A Khmer student!
Khmer around the world rather buy Khmer's product....Mr. Hun Sen, please get on with this as fast as possible. We Khmer abroad can not wait to buy Khmer's rice to support our farmer.
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