Natural disasters cause crop failure pushing up cassava prices in Cambodia
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게시됨 2020년 11월 20일
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Mr. Say Sophat, Director of the Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries of Pailin province, said that the price of cassava (tapioca) in this crop year is much higher than previous years. Currently, the price of fresh cassava is at 260 Riel / kg and cassava chips (dry) ranges from 780 to 910 Riel depending on the quality of the product. Meanwhile, at this time last year, the price of fresh cassava only reached less than 100 Riel / kg (about 600 VND / kg).
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According to Mr. Say Sophat, this year Pailin farmers planted about 40,000 hectares of cassava and this item was mainly exported to Thailand and Vietnam due to the failure of domestic processing establishments. In Battambang province, the price of cassava at the beginning of the crop was purchased by traders at 280 Riel / kg and dried cassava at 870 Riel / kg. According to the local Chamber of Commerce, 80% of the total cassava production here is exported to Thailand. The reason for the sharp increase in cassava prices this year is due to the successive floods in recent years, causing inundation and land reclamation that damaged about 40% of the cultivated area of cassava. Since the beginning of the year, Cambodia has exported about 1.7 million tons of fresh cassava and about 1.2 million tons of cassava chips to Vietnam and Thailand. ...