Commodity Online (India)
NEW DELHI: Even as India is shying away from exporting non-Basmati rice fearing inflation rise, Cambodia is all set to play a big role in rice market with a surplus crop helping the country ship at least 2 million tonne.
Media reports said Cambodia’s production of unmilled rice has increased 12 per cent this year, which would create a surplus of 2.8 million tonnes in 2008, up 300,000 tonnes over last year’s figures.
The country also hopes that the quantity of rice production will continue to increase next year.
The Cambodian government expects total production of unmilled rice to hit 6.8 million tonnes, which would represent a million-tonne gain over last year.
Cambodia is negotiating with several countries to secure additional markets for Cambodian rice.
The country will export at least 2 million tonnes of rice in 2009 to countries in the region, in the Middle East, the European Union and in Africa.
Media reports said Cambodia’s production of unmilled rice has increased 12 per cent this year, which would create a surplus of 2.8 million tonnes in 2008, up 300,000 tonnes over last year’s figures.
The country also hopes that the quantity of rice production will continue to increase next year.
The Cambodian government expects total production of unmilled rice to hit 6.8 million tonnes, which would represent a million-tonne gain over last year.
Cambodia is negotiating with several countries to secure additional markets for Cambodian rice.
The country will export at least 2 million tonnes of rice in 2009 to countries in the region, in the Middle East, the European Union and in Africa.
12 comments:
Excellent! Please don't forget banana for selling to the northern countries. Sell them cheap and sell them by a gazillion pounds. Yepee!
make sure the maximum benefits go to the farmers who endure the back breaking hard works, not the corrupt officials.
Dear Ki-media, you are really kind sharing to the khmer people around the world to catch the news from srok khmer.
good news that its really cheap now. Perhap even the most poorest will have enough also.
this is the fingured by group of ah hun sen business to show khmer public to proud of farmer for producing .but the raelity of all rice are yuon business by group to grip up khmer farmer to only directly sale to viet nam.if we turn on map we never see trucks to khmer port ,we see alot of veit trucks move to viet nam .
Hi Everybody,
You see, the topic mentioned that "unmilled rice". Why Cambodia cannot produce rice at the international standard which will produce of jobs in Cambodia before exporting finished product to oversea? This is kind of lacking technology and there is no one dare to invest on building a standard mill for producing international standard rice. Is there any one interest on such a business?
i'm wondering how come there's no cambodian rice selling in the hundreds of asian supermarkets in the USA? seems only rice from thailand. not is just not fair on cambodia as she is now producing surplus rice for export. i would like to see more cambodian rice coming to america's asian markets. i will be the first one to buy cambodian rice for sale at supermarket.
oh, we like to see the rice bag prints made in cambodia rice, i'm so sick to see only from thailand and vietnam. what's wrong with made in cambodia products?
You are right 8:42 AM a lot of the raw products got sold across the border to Thailand and Vietnam. Agricultural and fisheries products such as: rice, sesame seed, ginger, fish (fresh, dried, prahok), sdau leaves, palm flesh, palm sugar, etc. These products are sold at a fraction of the price they should be, at the other side of the borders they are then processed and packed into jars, tin, bottles and export as product of Vietnam or Thailand at the price 20-50 times higher than what they were sold from Cambodia. Some of the products are unique to Cambodia yet is a product of the neighbouring countries, for example Prahok Siemriep, the package bearing images of traditional Khmer temples and Khmer writings is a product of Vietnam.
Investments to build food package and processing plant should be encourage by the Cambodian administration, something like would do well considering a lot of places in the world where people just cant grow their own food. They need to make it safer for the investors, they need to reduce corruptions. At the the moment any investor especially ex-patriots would need to feed the hungry corrupted officials from every level of administrations, any profit is drained by the corrupted officials, in some case the life of the investors could be at risk if the corrupted demands are not met.
Good, and yes we should have technology in place to produce milled rice.
Keep on hard work my mum and dad famers, and I hope the govt will find good markets for you. Everyone eats, so don't worry.
Raja
Jey Yoh, PM Hun Sen!
Jey Yoh, PM Hun Sen!
Jey Yoh, PM Hun Sen!
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RUBBERS OUT! BANANAS IN!
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