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Electricity demand dwindles amid lockdown: official
Tue, 4 May 2021
Demand for electricity has dropped to 1,700MW from 2,000MW in 2019 and has yet to post a significant pick-up even as factories and hotels in designated yellow zones resume business, according to a senior official at the Ministry of Mines and Energy.
Nearly 100 factories have reopened after a short hiatus due to the government s recent lockdown of Phnom Penh and Takmao town, according to a Ministry of Labour and Vocational Training spokesman.
Victor Jona, director-general for Energy, told The Post that to ensure balanced supply and consumption and respond to “economic problems”, a 400MW fuel oil power plant in Kandal province s Lvea Em district could be powered down, as could some of the turbines at hydropower dams.
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Cambodia plans to expand its clean-energy portfolio to 450MW by the end of next year. PUBLIC DOMAIN
Three solar farms to add 120MW in 2021
Mon, 8 February 2021
Three solar farms with a total 120MW of installed capacities are on track to be connected to the national grid by this year’s end, to help keep pace with growing demand and slash electricity prices, according to a senior official at the Ministry of Mines and Energy.
Victor Jona, the director-general of the ministry’s General Department of Energy listed the projects as a 60MW solar farm in Battambang province, a 30MW project in Pursat province and another 30MW facility in Banteay Meanchey province.
Cambodian mangoes welcome FTA progress
Cambodias mango industry is eyeing the Korean market following the conclusion of FTA negotiations
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Cambodia and Korea have concluded FTA negotiations putting the Cambodian mango industry one step closer to improving access.
On 3 February Korea’s trade minister Yoo Myung-hee and her Cambodian counterpart Pan Sorasak met virtually to sign a declaration that the two countries had reached an agreement.
Negotiations between Korea and Cambodia first began in July 2020, and while the FTA still has to be ratified by their respective parliaments before it enters into effect, the seven months represent the shortest negotiating period for a Korean FTA.
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Cambodia has exported 77 tonnes of fresh mangoes to South Korea since its inaugural shipment on January 15, 2020. Heng Chivoan
Mango exporter: 1,000 tonnes to S Korea in 2021
Tue, 2 February 2021
South Korean firm Hyundai Agro (Cambodia) Co Ltd plans to export 1,000 tonnes of fresh Keo Romiet mangoes to the South Korean market this year, according to Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Veng Sakhon on February 2.
Following the January 20 successful pilot export of one tonne of the Kingdom’s predominant variety of the fruit, Sakhon said the company’s outlook for steadily rising export figures in the upcoming harvest season became all the rosier.
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The four companies are building hot water treatment (HWT) and vapour heat treatment (VHT) facilities to sterilise their crops and exterminate pests. VENG SAKHON
Phytosanitary facilities ‘soon’ in China mango export race
Thu, 17 December 2020
At least four companies are set to complete the construction of infrastructure and phytosanitary treatment facilities for mangoes by the end of the year.
This comes in response to the Chinese government’s June 9 official approval of the export of 500,000 tonnes of Cambodian fresh mangoes per year to the country.
As part of the agreement, the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries that day signed the protocol on “Phytosanitary requirements for the export of fresh Keo Romiet mangoes from Cambodia to the People’s Republic of China”.