Title of document: Policy Document on Promotion of Paddy Rice Production and Export of Milled Rice (Cambodia)

Ministry / Government Agency: Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, and Fisheries

Year of publication: 2013

Geographic focus: Cambodia

Main issues / topics addressed: Increasing paddy rice production and milled rice export; Increase gross export value and values added generated throughout the supply chain including employment; The milled rice export promotion

School of agroecology: Rice farming

The Royal of Government of Cambodia has adopted a three-pronged strategy productivity enhancement, diversification and agricultural commercialization (from subsistence to commercial agriculture) through implementing a package of interrelated measures: (1) infrastructure building and enhancement (roads, irrigations, energy/electricity and ITC) (2) improvement in the provision of extension services and agricultural inputs (3) land management reform (4) finance (5) marketing (6) farmer organization and (7) institutional building and coordination.