Economic

Government Launch Body in Effort to Up Rice Exports

by sidet on April 5, 2012

in Agriculture

The Ministry of Commerce is setting up a National Confederation for Rice Exporters to achieve Prime Minister Hun Sen’s target of exporting 1 million tons of milled rice by 2015.

The confederation will serve as an umbrella group to bring together various rice growers, millers and exporters’ associations in Cambodia to make the production and export of milled rice more efficient, according to a statement from the ministry dated Friday.

“The ministry will establish a confederation for rice export at a national level, aiming to encourage producer communities, transport service providers, bankers and rice exporters to discuss together to find a mechanism to push up Cambodia’s paddy rice production and exports to the world market,” the statement says. [Read full article…]

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