[Viet-]Cambodian group invests in fertilizer production

08/03/2010
VOV News (Hanoi)

A contract was signed in Phnom Penh on August 2 by Cambodian Five Star International Group with China’s Jiangsu Right Machinery Group to transfer the new technology for fertilizer production to the first modern fertilizer plant in Cambodia.

Under the contract, Jiangsu Right Machinery Group will provide two fertilizer processing chains using Japan’s most up-to-date technology.

The Cambodian plant is expected to be operational by 2011 and produce about 500,000 tonnes of fertilizer per year in 40 high quality categories. This will help farmers raise their production output and living conditions.

This is a joint-venture between Cambodian Five Star International Group and Cambodia Investment and Development Company under the Bank for Investment and Development of Vietnam (BIDV), with a total capital of US$65 million.

Viet company PFVC eying Cambodian market

PVFC opens office in Phnom Penh

May, 06 2010
Vietnam News (Hanoi)

PHNOM PENH — The PetroVietnam Fertiliser and Chemicals Company (PVFC) yesterday held a press conference in Cambodia's capital of Phnom Penh on the launch of their first official representative office in the country.

Speaking at the event, PVFC General Director Phan Dinh Duc underlined the developing relationship with urea importers and distributors in 2010, adding that he planned to establish a company that specialise in supplying the product in Cambodia and to expand the market for other agricultural products.

Environment Remains Pressing Issue, Expert Says

By Sok Khemara, VOA Khmer
Washington
08 November 2007

Cambodia's natural environment remains under threat, but there are measures everyday Cambodians can take to help it, an expert said Thursday.

Illegal logging, land theft, poaching, chemical fertilizer and pesticide abuse and other exploitive practices have diminished the environment, said Ngy San, vice chairman of the NGO Forum, as a guest on "Hello VOA."

Cambodia needs to develop better laws and other measures to protect the environment, he said, but people also need to realize the costs and benefits both of development.

He cited the example of a dam built in Vietnam that broke, flooding Cambodia, as an example of how a supposedly beneficial development could actually be harmful, even across borders.

Meanwhile, farmers should do their part to preserve the environment, by moving to natural fertilizers and pesticides, he said. "Of course, when peasants use pesticides or chemicals, their harvest increases," he said. "But let's think: if one cow dies [as a result], how much do they lose?"