Businesses in southern Tay Ninh province have been allowed to import 40,000 tonnes of cassava from Cambodia in the first five months of this year, serving local processing factories.

For the 2013-14 crop, 45 businesses and individuals in the province have registered to invest or otherwise cooperate in growing over 5,500 hectares of sugar cane and nearly 1,100 hectares of cassava in Cambodian provinces bordering Vietnam.

Cooperation documents have been signed between the authorities of Tay Ninh province and the two Cambodian provinces of Svayrieng and Kampongcham.

To encourage investment in Cambodia and the transport of post-harvest farm produce into Vietnam, Tay Ninh has applied a partial import tariff exemption while intensifying import and quarantine procedures and facilitating the transport of goods.-VNA