By: Genevieve Donnellon-May Hun Manet, the new Cambodia prime minister and son of the previous prime minister and former military general Hun Sen, recently announced the implementation of a new strategic policy for local agriculture development. Under the new policy, the national government aims for Cambodia to become one of the world’s top ten agriculture-producing…
The Mekong Delta region is facing a staggering economic setback, with researchers estimating annual losses exceeding VND70 trillion ($2.96 billion) due to saltwater intrusion. The findings, presented by the Water Resources Science Institute under the Ministry of Natural Resources and the Environment at a Friday conference on water resource management, were based on sophisticated mathematical…
Saltwater intrusion from the sea into the Cửu Long (Mekong) Delta’s water bodies is expected to peak in March, according to the Directorate of Water Resources. The country’s largest producer of rice, fruit and seafood suffers from the intrusion in the dry season every year. The directorate said saltwater with salinity of 4 grammes per…
SHAH ALAM: Sirim Bhd is working towards increasing jackfruit exports globally by commercialising the fruit as a meat substitute. President and chief executive officer Datuk Dr Ahmad Sabirin Arshad said that based on demand from Europe, the fruit had been accepted as an alternative to meat by people on a vegetarian diet. “As part of…
Hin Pisei | Publication date 27 October 2022 | 20:13 ICT Agriculture minister Dith Tina (right) and Chinese ambassador Wang Wentian (third right) look at arrangements of Pailin longan at an event marking the inaugural export of the fruit from Cambodia to China on October 27. Heng Chivoan Longan on October 27 became the third…
Michael Burry is doubling down on investing in farmland. What is one of the hottest and underappreciated assets on Earth this decade? Is it Zoom (ZM), which skyrocketed 500% this year? Or perhaps it’ll be Amazon (AMZN), the king of stay-at-home names already up 72% this year. Surely it must be Moderna (MRNA) or Pfizer…
Jackfruit or Artocarpus heterophyllus, the spiky, green, bulky fruit is a common sight in the backyard of almost every household on the south coast of India. When ripe and cut open, its yellow, fleshy and stringy interior wafts a very intense tropical smell. Besides being unique in their look and smell, they are also known…
PHNOM PENH — In early June, nine women in red gowns held platters of mangoes as Cambodian and Chinese dignitaries cut a red ribbon strung between the piles of tropical fruit grown by farmers in Cambodia to celebrate new trade items sent to China. Concluded with the release of balloons, the ceremony at a wholesale…
Vietnam farm exports to China posted impressive growth between January and May, with shipments of some produce even matching or surpassing the corresponding figures for the entire 2020, data of the Plant Protection Department under the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development showed. During the period, Vietnam shipped over 468,000 tonnes of mango to China,…
China has arranged a deal for Cambodia to export about 500,000 tons of fresh mango to the country, according to reports. After more than three years of negotiation, the Cambodian Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, and Fisheries and the General Administration of Customs of China officially accepted 37 companies with mango farm and five companies with…
The private sector experienced a wave of renewed optimism that mango would become a valuable agro-industrial export and prove particularly attractive to investors, after Cambodia on May 7 shipped around 100 tonnes of fresh mango to China, in the Kingdom’s inaugural direct export of the fruit to the East Asian market. The official export came…
China has allowed Cambodia exports of fresh mangoes directly to its market after Chinese Customs on April 26 certified 37 mango plantations and five packaging factories as compliant with phytosanitary and packaging standards. The approval came after experts from the General Administration of Customs of the People’s Republic of China (GACC) in Guangxi province on…
MEKONG DELTA — Việt Nam wants to expand mango farming and increase exports of the fruit to US$650 million by 2030 amid growing global demand for it. Exports of the fruit have been rising over the years, reaching US$180 million last year. According to exporters, there is a lot of potential since global exports of mango…
Once considered a luxury, avocados have become part of Americans’ everyday diet. Now, Mission Produce (AVO), one of the world’s largest avocado distributors, wants to do the same for another fruit — mangos. The Oxnard, Calif.-based company’s founder and CEO Steve Barnard tells Yahoo Finance Live that the mango industry is ripe for a leader…
An evaluation process undertaken to determine whether fresh mango exports can meet China’s rigorous health standards is now complete, according to Agriculture Minister Veng Sakhon. The process, which was conducted at three mango farms and four water heat treatment (WHT) and vapour heat treatment (VHT) plants in Cambodia, was overseen by both customs officials from…
Cambodia exported a total of 1,599,922.37 tonnes of major non-milled-rice agricultural products in the first two months of this year, an increase of 569,493.88 tonnes or 55.27 per cent compared to the same period in 2020, according to Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Veng Sakhon. The ministry listed 43 such products on the roster…
Efforts are being made by growers to sell it locally or supply it to big companies. Frozen ripe jackfruit is the latest addition to the growing market of value-added products from jackfruit. Bibil Thomas, a 29-year-old software engineer from Kumily in Idukki district of Kerala, has launched Jackobyte, which retails frozen ripe bulbs of jackfruit…
According to an announcement from China’s General Administration of Customs, China granted import permission for 10 new fruit items in 2020, representing a slight decrease from the previous year. The approved fruit items include Argentinian and Chilean citrus; Brazilian melons; Cambodian mangos; Dominican avocados; Indonesian dragon fruit; U.S. avocados, blueberries and nectarines; and Zambian blueberries….
From January to Dec. 15, 2020, Cambodia has exported some 945,274 tonnes of fresh mangoes to foreign markets, with an estimated total value of some $473,207,700. The figures were shared in a preliminary report on the progress of major agro-industrial crop production in 2020, by Veng Sakhon, Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries. The report…
Cambodia exported 8.55 million tonnes of its six most profitable agro-industrial crops, through formal and informal channels, worth more than $2.32 billion this year as of December 15, according to Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Veng Sakhon. In a December 24 post on his official Facebook page, the minister listed the crops as cassava,…
Cambodian Keo Romiet mangoes remain on target to be directly exported to the Chinese market from early next year after the economic powerhouse penned an agreement in June that set up a 500,000 tonne quota for the Kingdom’s widely-available fruit. Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Veng Sakhon told The Post on December 22 that…
Vietnam already has a well-deserved reputation as an agricultural powerhouse, but a recent public shift towards healthier and more sustainable meat alternatives—which has accelerated amid the Covid-19 pandemic – may mean that local producers are now serendipitously sitting atop some of the world’s most desirable ingredients. While most eyes in the business world are on…
Iran has voiced an interest in buying Cambodian agricultural products for domestic consumption and re-export, Cambodian ambassador to Thailand Ouk Sorphorn told The Post on December 3. The remark comes after Sorphorn met Iranian ambassador to Thailand Seyed Reza Nobakhti that morning. “The Iranian ambassador told me that Iran wants to buy milled rice, mango…
At least three Chinese companies are investing in industrial steaming equipment to use in the phytosanitary treatment of agricultural products for export, Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Veng Sakhon told The Post on Monday. This comes in response to the Chinese government’s June 9 official approval of the export of 500,000 tonnes of Cambodian…
State Councillor and Minister of Foreign Affairs of the People’s Republic of China, Wang Yi, arrived in Cambodia on Sunday for an official visit which will include a meeting with Prime Minister Hun Sen and other senior officials. Three documents will be signed, including the Cambodia-China Free Trade Agreement (CCFTA), the Exchange of Note for…
Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Veng Sakhon said a Chinese company was keen on investing in buying fresh fruits from Cambodia to process and package for export to the Chinese market. This comes following a Monday meeting held at the ministry between Sakhon and the company’s CEO Wang Bingnan to discuss investment plans in…
Singaporeans have a growing appetite for plant-based meat substitutes. In fact, demand for products from companies like Beyond Meat, Impossible Foods and Quorn have grown during the pandemic, partly because consumers are making more health-conscious decisions, according to The Straits Time. Now there is a new entrant to the market. Headquartered in Singapore, Karana announced…
HÀ NỘI — More than 75 tonnes of lychee were sold via the e-wallet MoMo in the past 20 days as part of the programme ‘Supporting Vietnamese Agricultural Products’. Nguyễn Bá Diệp, vice chairman and co-founder of MoMo said: “We first expected to sell about 20 tonnes of lychee in HCM City. Then we sold…
Vietnam Railways Corporation plans to operate freight trains to China and onward to third countries such as Russia and others in Europe this year. In its 2020 plans, the company seeks to step up utilization of international freight transport with plans to ship fruits and aquaculture products directly from southern provinces to China using refrigerated…
The Chinese investment company and mango exporter Cam MJ Agricultural Park Co Ltd is installing a packaging machine and industrial steaming equipment for pest control at its newest facility in Kampong Speu province. This comes following the Chinese government’s June 9 official approval of the export of 500,000 tonnes of Cambodian fresh mangoes per year…
Almost six tonnes of fruits and vegetables from Vietnam were seized and destroyed by Customs and Excise officials in Kandal and Kampot provinces after they were found to contain harmful pesticides. Moung Dara, the chief of the mobile Customs and Excise team at the Chrey Thom international checkpoint located in Koh Thom district, told The…
Cambodian and Chinese investors have jointly invested about $8 million to build a fruit processing plant in Preah Sihanouk province. Preah Sihanouk Provincial Hall spokesman Kheang Phearum told The Post on Wednesday that Shang Da Jian Hui International Agriculture Product and Logistic Co Ltd is in the process of constructing a fruit processing plant for…
Cambodia reached an official agreement with China on Tuesday to export fresh mangoes in a milestone decision which will open a giant new market for local producers. The Chinese government officially approved the export of 500,000 tonnes of Cambodian fresh mangoes per year to the country, where total demand for mangoes stands at about eight…
According to local media reports, Cambodia is accelerating its efforts to obtain market access to China for several of its agricultural products, with special priority being placed upon fresh mangos, longans, dragon fruit, coconuts, peppers and edible bird’s nests. Although the ongoing COVID-19 epidemic has brought some degree of inconvenience and uncertainty to these efforts,…
Demand for the Kingdom’s yellow bananas has surged since China authorised the export of the ubiquitous fruit last year. Cambodia’s minister of agriculture, forestry and fisheries, Veng Sakhon, said advances in agricultural technology, processing, packaging and exporting has helped boost yellow banana exports, which have increased significantly during the first five months of this year….
Cambodia expects exports of longan (Dimocarpus longan) from Pailin province to the international market, especially direct exports to China, to pick up once the once the Covid-19 outbreak tapers, provincial governor Thou Phea told The Post on Monday. Longan is a tropical evergreen tree species native to Asia that produces edible fruit. Phea said the…
Cambodia’s fruit and vegetable market is trending up, providing an unparalleled opportunity for the Kingdom’s growers, who often lack buyers for their produce, said a study by French-based industry report search engine ReportLinker. In its study Cambodia Fruits and Vegetables Market – Growth, Trends, and Forecast (2020 – 2025) released last week, ReportLinker said the…
PHNOM PENH (The Phnom Post/ANN): Cambodian mangoes are proving popular among South Korean consumers, the Korean Trade-Investment Promotion Agency (Kotra) said, encouraging more local firms to export the fruit to the East Asian country. https://www.thestar.com.my/news/regional/2020/03/12/cambodian-mangoes-have-ready-market-in-south-korea
