PHNOM PENH, Aug. 13 (Xinhua) -- China Food Industry Group is willing to export one million tons of dried cassava chips a year from Cambodia to China, said a Cambodian agriculture official on Saturday.
Yong Feng Cai, Chief Executive Officer of China Food Industry Group, during a meeting with the Minister of Agriculture Chan Sarun on Thursday, said that the Group planned to buy around one million tons of cassava from Cambodia for China, according to Preap Visarto, acting Director of the Agriculture Ministry’s Crop Protection, Proto-Sanitary Department.
“The company has asked for the support from the minister in this investment plan,” he said.
“At that time, the minister expressed his support for the firm’s plan,” said Visarto.
Visarto said that more Chinese companies have expressed their interests in Cambodia’s agriculture since Cambodia and China had signed rice and cassava export cooperation agreements in last October and December respectively in order to enable the exports of the two products from Cambodia to China.
According to the report from the Agriculture Ministry, in last year’s harvest season, the country yielded 3.78 million tons of fresh cassava.
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