Russia to Import Agricultural Products

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Khmer Times/Chea Vannak

Russia has agreed to import agricultural products from Cambodia, while the leaders of the two countries pledged to boost bilateral trade during meetings between the two countries’ senior officials in the past week. Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev met with his Cambodian counterpart Prime Minister Hun Sen and the two forged a deal for Russia to import agricultural products from Cambodia, Kao Kim Hourn, a minister attached to Prime Minister Hun Sen, said on his return from Moscow at Phnom Penh International Airport over the weekend.

Russia will import Cambodian rice, fruit and other products, Mr. Kim Hourn said, but gave no details on the amount of rice or what kind of fruit Russia will import from Cambodia. However, officials and rice exporters welcomed the move. Ieng Sophalet, a spokesman at the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, said he did not know specific numbers of agricultural products to be exported to Russia, but added that exports to Russia were another new market to help boost Cambodia’s agricultural product exports.

Hun Lak, the managing director of Mekong Oryza, one of Cambodia’s milled rice exporters, echoed the spokesman’s remark, saying the exports will provide rice producers and exporters the opportunity to expand their markets. Mr. Lak said exports of milled rice to Russia and other countries in Eastern European have taken place in the past but were private sector to private sector deals.

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