PhnomPenh (VNA) – Despite recent flash flood threats, Cambodia’srainy-season rice production is expected to reach 8.5 million tonnes this year, a 4 percent increase from 2019,Cambodian news agency AKP reported.
VengSakhon, Minister of Agriculture, Forestry, and Fisheries, shared the updatefollowing a recent monitoring discussion of rice yield data with provincialdepartments.
Theaverage harvest is about 3,122 tonnes per hectare, which is an increase fromabout 3,095 tonnes per hectare last year, he added.
Accordingto the minister, about 89 percent or 57,557 hectares of the total rice paddiesin the 19 provinces affected by the recent flash floods has been rehabilitatedso far.
Theministry has also handed out thousands of tonnes of rice seeds to farmers tocultivate on their rehabilitated paddies.
Figuresfrom the Cambodia Rice Federation show that for the 11 months of 2020, Cambodia’srice exports increased by nearly 17 percent with total volume of 601,045 tonnesworth 415 million USD, a 12 percent increase year-on-year./.
VengSakhon, Minister of Agriculture, Forestry, and Fisheries, shared the updatefollowing a recent monitoring discussion of rice yield data with provincialdepartments.
Theaverage harvest is about 3,122 tonnes per hectare, which is an increase fromabout 3,095 tonnes per hectare last year, he added.
Accordingto the minister, about 89 percent or 57,557 hectares of the total rice paddiesin the 19 provinces affected by the recent flash floods has been rehabilitatedso far.
Theministry has also handed out thousands of tonnes of rice seeds to farmers tocultivate on their rehabilitated paddies.
Figuresfrom the Cambodia Rice Federation show that for the 11 months of 2020, Cambodia’srice exports increased by nearly 17 percent with total volume of 601,045 tonnesworth 415 million USD, a 12 percent increase year-on-year./.
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