China’s COFCO, the largest oils and food importer and exporter in China and a leading food manufacturer, on Tuesday afternoon expresses its interest to invest in rice exports and tourism in Cambodia. “We are very interesting in rice exports from Cambodia and hotel industry in Cambodia,”Yang Hong, vice president of China Oil and Foodstuff Corporation [...]
HA NOI — Despite the fact that many Vietnamese companies are increasing their investments in the promising Cambodian market, they are still faced with a number of difficulties and have asked the Government for more support. Vietnamese firms have entered Cambodia in the fields of farm produce, finance, telecommunications, hydro-power and cash crops such as [...]
Cambodia and its four Mekong River neighbors are considering a regional rice agreement that would help in the manufacturing and export of rice globally. Cambodia, along with Burma, Laos, Thailand and Vietnam, would not seek to “haggle” prices, such as OPEC, Prime Minister Hun Sen said Wednesday, following a summit of the five Southeast Asian [...]
A CAMBODIAN association has signed a deal worth US$22.4 million with a Vietnamese firm to plant 20,000 hectares worth of paddy rice for export. The Community of Takmoa Agricultural and Industrial Development yesterday signed an investment deal with Vietnam’s Thai Thinh Company. Lim Kimkhun, head of the Takmoa association, said that the cooperative agreement between [...]
Indian rice exporter Amira Group plans to invest up to US$40 million in Cambodia’s rice sector, hailing it as the “future of rice in the world”. New Delhi-based Amira Group executive director Protik Guha said the company was looking to put between US$30 million and $40 million towards setting up a rice-processing plant in the Kingdom [...]
In September 2010, Cambodia government’s trade delegation paid a visit to two countries – Russia and Roland- in order to attract rice buyers and it was expected at least 40,000 tonnes of rice to be exported from Cambodia to the both nations in the whole year of 2011. Government official hoped that the number of [...]
GOVERNMENT officials and representatives from the rice mills will meet today in order to share their experiences of exporting rice to Europe. Thun Vireak, manager of the state-run Green Trade Company, said yesterday that the group would meet at the Ministry of Commerce in order to raise concerns and discuss their experiences of operating in [...]
At the present, Cambodian farmers started to plant rice without using chemical and pesticide. Organic rice is more expensive than rice used chemical. European market demands organic milled rice from Cambodia.