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Cambodia's rice export up 64 pct in 5 months

Xinhua, June 7, 2015 Adjust font size:

Cambodia exported 243,025 tons of milled rice in the first five months of 2015, a 64 percent rise from the 148,262 tons over the same period last year, according to an official report on Sunday.

Sixty-nine companies have exported Cambodian rice to 46 countries and regions around the world, said the report compiled by the Secretariat of One Window Service for Rice Export.

Three top buyers of Cambodian rice are China, France and Poland. During the first five months of this year, Cambodia exported 68, 437 tons of rice to China, 29,717 tons to France and 26,513 tons to Poland.

The Southeast Asian country produced over 9 million tons of paddy rice a year. With this amount, it has more than 3 million tons of milled rice left over for exports per year.

In 2010, Cambodia launched a rice promotion strategy, setting a goal of exporting 1 million tons of milled rice by the end of 2015. However, Commerce Minister Sun Chanthol said early this year that the country was unlikely to achieve the self-imposed target due to a lack of milling capacity and funding. Endi