Cambodia’s

Rice Export
Policy
Ros Seilava
Supreme National
Economic Council

About rice promotion policy

} Vision, by 2015
} Export formally at least 1 million milled rice
} Produce the excess of more than 4 million
paddy rice
} Promote Cambodia’s brand name
} Attainability
} Yield of 3 t/ha for wet and 5.5 t/ha for dry
season rice
} Area intensification(102% for wet and 120% for
dry season arable land)
} Active Marketing Effort

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About Policy Measures
} Two-prong strategy
} Revert informal paddy to formal rice export
} Enhance competitiveness in medium term
} Address along value chain, production,
processing, export facilitation and market
} Aims to address “Coordination Failure”
} Two types of policies, quick-win and
medium to long-term measures

Policy Measures: Production

} Quick-win
} Seed, appropriate technology
} Small-scale irrigation
} Rural road
} Micro finance
} Medium to long term
} Water Management
} Rural electrification
} Farmer organization
} Agriculture land management

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Policy Measures: Processing
} Quick-win
} Private sector participation
} Provide credit for paddy collection
} Promote rice-miller association
} Medium to long term
} Innovate new financial tools
} Build-up cooperative role following concept
“Open Paddy Market”
} Reduce electricity cost and expand coverage

Policy Measures: Export

Facilitation
} Quick-win
} Reduce informal fee
} Address issues of standard and quality
} Construction of Phnom Penh Port and
Bonded warehouse
} Medium to long term
} Manage Sanitary and Phyto-Sanitary
System
} Put more investment in export facilities

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Policy Measures: Export Market
} Quick-win
} Looking for export opportunity
} Establish Rice market monitoring unit
} Disseminate market information
} Medium to long term
} Prepare strategic rice market

Contribution to the region

To ensure regional food security
and poverty reduction.

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GMS Asia’s Rice Bowl
} Largest rice production/export of the
World
} GMS countries could play very important
role to ensure food security in the region,
Asia and the World both in term of
quantity and price
} Technology
T h l sharingand
h i d ttransfer
f
} Coordinated infrastructure development
} Joint standard development

How ADB can support?

} National Level
} Invest in a package of seed, credit, small-scale
infrastructure and market-link project
} Finance Infrastructure development to facilitate
export
} Joint with government and private sector to
create new Financial Scheme for rice collectors
} Capacity
p y building
g on market
finding/negotiation, supply chain management
} Development of SPS system and quality
standard
} Review Open Paddy Market

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How ADB can support?
} Regional Level
} Cross-border trade facilitation and invest
infrastructure development
} Sharing experiences in the region on rice sector,
especially on biosafety, quality standard,
marketing strategy
} Establish a joint market intelligent unit to share
information on price, production, trade etc.
} Coordinate the infrastructure development,
development
especially irrigation that wholly affect region
} Cooperation among countries in the region to
ensure price stability, that benefit poverty
reduction and food security

Thank you for your

attention!