Cambodia exported a total of 445,913 tonnes of milled rice in the first three quarters of this year, earning some US$335 million in revenue, a report of the Cambodia Rice Federation said on Monday.
Exported milled rice varieties included premium aromatic rice, fragrant rice, long grain white rice, parboiled rice, and organic rice, it pointed out.
Cambodian rice has been shipped to 65 countries and regions around the world during the said period, added the same source.
Rice export to the European Union’s countries was amounted to 228,731 tonnes, earning US$186 million, followed by exports to China with 81,423 tonnes and to ASEAN at 86,043 tonnes, generating US$56 million and US$52 million as revenue, respectively, read the report.
At the same time, Cambodia also had 3.36 million tonnes of border-traded paddy rice with neighbouring countries, collecting a revenue of US$1,066 million.
The Cambodia Rice Federation has set an ambitious goal to export at least a million tonnes of milled rice by 2025.
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g to the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, Cambodia has a total of 3.54 million hectares of rice fields, producing a yearly yield of 12.49 million tonnes of paddy rice.
Source: Agence Kampuchea Presse