Tuesday, 05 January 2010 05:35 DAP-NEWS/
(CAAI News Media)
Ek Madra .PHNOM PENH, January 5, 2010 (DAP): Cambodia said on Tuesday that it expected to produce an estimated 7.17 million tonnes of rice for 2009/2010 of which the country saw another surplus of rice of 3.1 million tonnes for exports, said the agricultural report on Tuesday.
It said the rainy rice season produced 5.876 million tonnes of rice (May to November 2009) harvested from 2.828 hectares. Dry rice season (December/2009 to April 2010) produced an estimated 1.41 million tonnes which is harvested from 351,592 hectares.
The rainy rice yield production was 2.529 tonnes per hectare. Dry rice yield production was 4 tonnes per hectare, said the report seen by DAP.
“Although we faced some problems with bad weather of drought and Ketsana storm during the cultivation period of the rainy rice season, but the government’s supplies along with the farmers’ hard working enabled us to achieve a remarkable result,” said the report.
Cambodia’s National Committee for National Disaster Management said in October that the country suffered US$140 million in damages after Typhoon Ketsana swept through the country in September, a figure pegged well beyond previous tallies of the storm’s destruction.
At least 43 people died and 67 others were severely injured after Ketsana’s lashing winds and rain and resulted floods that swept through the country in late September last year.
Cambodia’s total population is 13.8 million consumes 1.979 million tonnes of rice, said the report.
“So, we expect to have 3.273 million of rice surplus for export,” it said.
Cambodia has been exporting most of its rice surplus to the neighboring countries of Vietnam and Thailand.
Cambodia produced 7.1 million tonnes 2008/09 from 6.7 million tonnes previous harvest, has surplus of more than 2 million tonnes of rice for exports during those years.
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