Cambodia’s rice exports surge in first four months

Cambodian Minister of Agriculture, Forestry, and Fisheries Veng Sakhon has said that his country exported 300,000 tonnes of rice in the first four months of this year, up nearly 40.5 percent year-on-year.

Agriculture exports via official channels surpassed 2 million tonnes while those through unofficial ones stood at 1 million tonnes.

The Khmer Times newspaper quoted Sakhon as saying that in April, Cambodia shipped 5,500 tonnes of tapioca and 4,500 tonnes of fresh cassava to Thailand and Vietnam; 800 tonnes of cashew nut to Vietnam; 1,982 tonnes of banana to China, Vietnam, and Japan; and 150 tonnes of mango to Thailand, Vietnam, France, Russia, the Republic of Korea, and Hong Kong (China).

In full: https://en.vietnamplus.vn/cambodias-rice-exports-surge-in-first-four-months/172737.vnp

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