Phnom Penh (VNA) - Cambodia shipped 118,401 tonnesof rice to China in the first half of 2019, an annual increase of 66 percent.
According to a report from Cambodia’s Secretariat of OneWindow Service for Rice Export, China remained the top buyer of its rice duringthe period, with the amount shipped to China accounting for 42 percent of thecountry's total rice export.
Meanwhile, Cambodia exported 93,503 tonnes of rice to theEuropean market, down 32 percent against last year. The reduction resulted fromthe European Union imposing duties on rice importing from Cambodia for threeyears beginning this year in a bid to curb a surge in rice imports from thecountry and to protect European producers.
The report said the Southeast Asian country’s rice exportsto 50 countries and regions worldwide during the January – June period amountedto 281,538 tonnes, up 3.7 percent year-on-year.-VNA