via CAAI News Media
PHNOM PENH, Mar 23, 2010 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- Cambodia's agriculture, one of the country's major productions and earners, is slightly hit by drought, a government official said Tuesday.
Hong Narith, chief of Cabinet of Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries told Xinhua by phone that drought has slightly hit the country's agricultural sector, but not critical one.
He said his ministry is waiting for the total figures of the drought being filed by local communities around the country.
Drought is now reported in several countries of the ten-members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations.
According to a MAFF report, 912,275 hectares of economic land concessions have been given to 65 domestic and foreign private companies since August 2007.
Cambodia, which has been successful with rice production in the last decade and this prospect remains unchanged, produced 7.286 million tons of rice for 2009/2010 of which the country has another surplus of about 3.5 million tons of rice for exports.
Cambodia's Agriculture Minister Chan Sarun has said Cambodia's rice cultivated area could be expanded up to 3.5 million hectares from 2.6 million hectares recently, from which the country could reach a potential harvest of 12.25 million tons of rice.
Cambodia's Agriculture Minister Chan Sarun has said Cambodia's rice cultivated area could be expanded up to 3.5 million hectares from 2.6 million hectares recently, from which the country could reach a potential harvest of 12.25 million tons of rice.
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