2008-04-23
PHNOM PENH, April 23 (Xinhua) -- The Cambodian government has agreed to sell 6,000 tons of broken rice to Senegal as an urgent case, Prime Minister Hun Sen said Wednesday.
Senegal required buying the broken rice products from Cambodia in urgent case, Hun Sen said while addressing the 13th Government-Private Sector Forum held in Phnom Penh.
Cambodian Commerce Minister Cham Prasidh is visiting Dakar, capital of Senegal, to meet with the Senegalese side, the prime minister said.
"They understood that we banned the exports of rice products. Therefore they required to buy broken rice only," he added.
Recently, Hun Sen banned the rice exports but later lifted the ban for three provinces bordering Vietnam.
Rice farmers at the provinces are happy to sell their products with high price to merchants, he said.
The price of milled rice has grown from 0.5 dollar to nearly one dollar per kilo in Cambodia.
Editor: Wang Yan
PHNOM PENH, April 23 (Xinhua) -- The Cambodian government has agreed to sell 6,000 tons of broken rice to Senegal as an urgent case, Prime Minister Hun Sen said Wednesday.
Senegal required buying the broken rice products from Cambodia in urgent case, Hun Sen said while addressing the 13th Government-Private Sector Forum held in Phnom Penh.
Cambodian Commerce Minister Cham Prasidh is visiting Dakar, capital of Senegal, to meet with the Senegalese side, the prime minister said.
"They understood that we banned the exports of rice products. Therefore they required to buy broken rice only," he added.
Recently, Hun Sen banned the rice exports but later lifted the ban for three provinces bordering Vietnam.
Rice farmers at the provinces are happy to sell their products with high price to merchants, he said.
The price of milled rice has grown from 0.5 dollar to nearly one dollar per kilo in Cambodia.
Editor: Wang Yan
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