Cambodia: Chilli exports ratchet up a red-hot 27% in spicy 2020

PHNOM PENH, Jan 8 (Phnom Penh Post/ANN): The government’s policy to boost productivity performance in the agricultural sector has lit a fire under the Kingdom’s exports, with shipments of fresh chilli flaring up 27.08 per cent from 55,513 tonnes in 2019 to 70,546 tonnes in a spicy 2020, according to Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Veng Sakhon.

Battambang provincial Department of Agriculture director Chhim Vachira told The Post on that during this time last year, vegetable cultivation area in the province – chilli and otherwise – had exceeded 1,000ha, eclipsing the target by over 150 per cent.