Farmers Produce Rice To Make Ends Meet But Government Proud To be Big Exporter

It is especially true on which Cambodian farmers have been cultivating only for making ends meet but not standing for the intention of government’s agriculture-sector forefront in a priority strategic plan. There have a few farmers achieved their goal of relying on agriculture cultivation for their daily livelihood. They do not have a solid hope for the market to sell their products after harvesting or even sell paddy rice at a very cheap price. They lose totally since the rice production value chain.

In a conclusion shows that Cambodians could not emerge away poverty through agricultural production due to they become debtors to the private bank. In this regard, farmers could not struggle to survive themselves so they could not satisfy the government’s vision targeting agriculture sector which is determined as the forefront for national socioeconomic development in the export diversification and expansion framework.

In contrast, this is the travesty of Cambodia’s milled rice expansion plan which Cambodia had intended to become a large paddy rice exporter in a region of Southeast Asia. It is proud to fully unlock the potential in producing paddy rice for a broader export. The export of milled rice has been a priority for Cambodia in its export diversification and expansion strategy. So far garment manufacturing is a forerunner.

Eying on international rice market development, it is an economic opportunity for Cambodia. There has been many problems that have hampered in its export plan including the farmers are producing for their making ends meet, and the production cost of milled rice is high value. The price of Cambodia rice is expensive since in production chain in the light of high-cost expenditure for fertilizer which lacks quality as well. The fee of fuel in which the population almost entirely depends on motor pumping due to Cambodia lacks of the irrigation system, an electricity supply is also so expensive. The cost of production is more expensive than in neighboring countries Thailand and Vietnam. In addition, Cambodia lacks infrastructure for product transportation.

Spending on such outrageous expensive cost on production makes Cambodian rice must be sold in high value against a backdrop of Cambodia has become debtor which is hard to enter the international market, particularly difficult to challenge with the neighboring countries. They are the nations which entered international markets already.

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