Cambodia's rice export sees slight increase in 9 months

PHNOM PENH, Oct. 9 (Xinhua) -- Cambodia exported 269,370 tons of milled rice in the first nine months of 2014, up 1.2 percent from 266,123 tons over the same period last year, according to official data released Thursday.

Seventy-seven companies have brokered Cambodian rice for 57 countries and regions around the world, said the data compiled by the Secretariat of One Window Service for Rice Export.

The five major buyers of Cambodian rice are France, Poland, Malaysia, the Netherlands and China.

During the first nine months of this year, the country had exported 49,670 tons to France, 45,850 tons to Poland, 25,900 tons to Malaysia, 24,440 tons to the Netherlands, and 20,920 tons to China. "A slight rise in rice exports was due to fierce competitions with other countries' rice, particularly Vietnam and Thailand," said Kim Savuth, vice president of the Federation of Cambodian Rice Exporters.

Cambodia produced 9.4 million tons of paddy rice last year. With the amount, it has over 3 million tons of milled rice left over for exports this year.

Last year, it exported some 379,000 tons of milled rice, up 84 percent year-on-year.

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