Cambodia's Kratie plant boosts sugarcane growing, prepares to export

The Kingdom exported more than US$18.95 million worth of sugar and confectionery items in the first half of this year, down by 43.9 per cent year-on-year from $33.79 million.- FRESH NEWS

PHNOM PENH (The Phnom Penh Post/Asia News Network): After a nearly 10-year production hiatus, a joint venture sugarcane factory in Kratie province’s northernmost district plans to start exporting, and is pushing to increase cultivation to maintain the sustainability of its supply chain, a senior provincial official told The Post on Wednesday (Nov 23).

Kratie provincial deputy governor Pen Linat said the plant reopened last year following investment by local and Vietnamese investors and now employs more than 500 workers, and that 3,000ha of sugarcane of a planned 10,000ha have been planted at an attached plantation.