Cambodia earns 209 mln USD from milled rice export in first 4 months

PHNOM PENH, May 5 (Xinhua) -- Cambodia exported 282,315 tonnes of milled rice in the first four months of 2025, earning a gross revenue of 209 million U.S. dollars, the Cambodia Rice Federation (CRF) said in a news release on Monday.

Forty-eight companies had shipped the kingdom's milled rice to 59 countries and regions during the January-April period this year, the news release said, adding that China remained one of the major importers of the commodity.

About 77.94 percent of the exported milled rice was fragrant rice, 17.15 percent was white rice, 2.47 percent was parboiled rice, 1.95 percent was organic rice, and 0.49 percent was other types of rice, the news release said.

Cambodian Ministry of Commerce's Secretary of State and Spokesperson Penn Sovicheat said the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) Agreement and the Cambodia-China Free Trade Agreement (CCFTA) had laid a solid foundation for Cambodia to export its agricultural items to China and other RCEP countries with tariff concessions.

"Under these trade pacts, a number of Cambodian products, especially high-quality agricultural produce such as milled rice, yellow bananas, mangoes, longans, and peppercorn, as well as some wild aquatic products, have been exported to China with preferential tariffs," he told Xinhua. ■