Viet Nam-Cambodia agree to $22m rice co-operation

Thai Thinh Co has inked a US$22.4 million agreement with Cambodian-based Takmoa Agriculture Development Association to co-operate in growing rice for export.

The partners will plant two rice crops per year at an estimated yield of 7 tonnes per hectare, targeting exports of 100,000 tonnes per year, and Thai Thinh will provide technical assistances in rice cultivation and processing to the Cambodian association. The partners will also build an irrigation system and a rice processing facility with an estimated output capacity of 500 tonnes per day.

Tags: Vietnam rice, Vietnam rice exports, Vietnam rice exports 2010

Posted by VBN on Nov 18 2010. Filed under Agriculture. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. You can leave a response or trackback to this entry