Monday, September 21, 2009

Chopsticks just the beginning, as Cambodia eyes Japan

Monday, September 21, 2009
Kyodo

Cambodia plans to export chopsticks to Japan early next year to meet the demands of Japanese markets.

Chan Sophal, president of Green Field Cambodia, says he's signed an agreement with a Japanese company to produce and export chopsticks.

Mr Sophal says the factory in Kompong Speu province, about 120 kilometres west of the capital Phnom Penh, will produce 100,000 pairs of chopsticks a day.

Cambodia's Commerce Ministry says the government is reviewing other export possibilities to Japan.

San Phiruna, director of multilateral relations department of the Commerce Ministry, says the Japanese market will be Cambodia's ''next destination'' because Japan has given Cambodia duty-free and quota-free export status.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Well, 100,000 chopsticks per day to Japan, how about 1,000,000 toothpicks a day to them?

Anonymous said...

Thanks Japan. Why Khmer don't export rice directly to Germany? Why only Vietnam and Thai?

Khmer in Germany

Anonymous said...

japan ought to look into importing khmer rice too, not just chopstick because think how many trees have to be cut down to make chopsticks for millions of japan people. khmer rice is good for khmer growing and economy as well. thank you, japan. we love japan. god bless cambodia.