Cambodia’s rubber exports to the international market saw an increase of 33 percent in the first nine months of 2017, while the average price for the commodity went up 53 percent, compared with the same period last year. From January to September 2017, Cambodia harvested 115,843 tonnes of rubber, of which 114,991 were exported, earning some $192 million.

 

Meanwhile, the average price of rubber reached $1,672 per tonne, an increase of $578, or 53 percent, compared with the same period last year, according to the latest report from the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries. The same report states 432,096 hectares in the kingdom are used as rubber plantations, of which 163,130, or 37.77 percent, are already harvestable.

 

Cambodia exports the commodity to China, Vietnam, Singapore and Malaysia. In 2016, Cambodia exported about 140,000 tonnes of rubber, earning nearly $180 million. Pol Sopha, the director-general of the ministry’s general directorate of rubber, said plantations had been harvesting a large amount of rubber and he added he was optimistic about the expansion of the industry.

 

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Meanwhile, only a few months ago, it seems, thai rubber producers where up in arms about declining markets... go figure