1/26/16

The government asked the private sector to use non-season to increase rice exports

: Head of Government raised about the use of IR by urging the private sector should choose not seed to improve production and export as much. Meanwhile, the government also urged the private sector produces fragrant rice varieties irrespective of the season and selling price higher than normal white rice, while rice can produce Romduol once a year.
Rice Romduol a type of rice that is best in the Kingdom by the internationally recognized and highly valued, and even demanding that this is a weakness of farmers because Romduol a type of seed that seasons that farmers can produce it only in the wet season, so can not supply enough needs it. However, if farmers want to use IR Romduol is choosing the most favorable ground.
Samdech Prime Minister Hun Sen said at the opening forum Cambodia Rice 5th at the Sokha Phnom Penh Hotel by the Institute of Research and Development of Cambodia produced rice net a lot and let private companies produce rice net followed by choosing the good seed, avoid fraudulent brand to allocate to farmers increase rice output has maximum and quality.
On last September 2015, ADB has provided concessional loans to the Cambodian government, some US $ 60 million on a project to improve irrigation systems for 5 years for the restoration to modernize and make the irrigation system at the base of Battambang and Kampong Thom to cope with climate change, which may impact on crop farmers.
Should tell you that by the year 2021 the total cultivated area of ​​both wet and dry doubled to 29500 hectares in 2015 to 13500 hectares.