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Cambodian agri exports rise 7.8% to 8.6 million tonnes Asia News Network (ANN) is the leading regional alliance of news titles striving to bring the region closer, through an active sharing of editorial content on happenings in the region.
Cambodia formally exported 8.6 million tonnes of agricultural products to 74 markets last year worth nearly $5 billion, up 7.8 per cent from the 7.9 million tonnes booked in 2021, as agriculture contributed 22.2 per cent of the Kingdom’s 2022 gross domestic product (GDP)
Prime Minister Hun Sen on March 24 asked the National Bank of Cambodia (NBC) and Ministry of Economy and Finance to put together a financing package to support the cashew nut industry’s ability to produce and export the commodity, with ambitions to turn the Kingdom into a top supplier at the global level.
In the past year, Cambodia has managed to supply itself with 95 per cent of the meat required for domestic demand, with the domestic and export markets worth a total of more than $2 billion in value, according to Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Dith Tina.