Sep 18, 2009PHNOM PENH, Sept. 18 (AP) - (Kyodo)—Cambodia plans to export chopsticks to Japan early next year to meet the demands of Japanese markets, a local company representative said Friday.
Chan Sophal, president of Green Field Cambodia Co., said he signed an agreement Tuesday with Hashiya Co. of Japan to produce and export chopsticks to Japan beginning early next year.
Sophal said his five-hectare factory for the chopsticks is in Kompong Speu province about 120 kilometers west of Phnom Penh.
According to the plan, 100,000 pairs of chopsticks will be produced per day from bamboo, rubber trees, palm trees and acacias.
The products will be exported by Hashiya, he added.
San Phiruna, director of multilateral relations department of the Commerce Ministry, said Cambodia is in a process to review other Cambodian products that could be exported to Japan.
He added the Japanese market will be Cambodia's "next destination" because Japan has given Cambodia duty-free and quota-free export status.
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