25 March 2014
An industry source
said several millers from Thailand’s central and northeastern regions are
preparing to set up rice mills in Cambodia, mainly for export purposes, citing
increasing production and relatively lower production costs in the neighboring
nation. More importantly, the quality of Cambodian rice, especially Cambodian
jasmine rice – phka malis in Khmer is becoming more widely recognized in the
world market. Cambodian jasmine rice won the world’s best rice award in 2013
after it won for the first time at the competition in Bali in 2012.
Cambodia’s local
operators have limited experience in marketing and exporting rice, while there
is a dearth of sophisticated rice mills in the country. Cambodia is now capable
of producing 9-10 million tones of paddy a year or 5 million tones of milled
rice but exported only 370,000 tonnes of milled rice last year. Cambodia’s
total rice consumption is estimated at 2.1 million tones for a population of 15
million.
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