Holidays slash Cambodia’s agriculture exports: Minister
Various holidays in the last two months prompted a decline in Cambodia’s exports of agricultural produce within the last two months, Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Veng Sakhon has said.
Cambodian rice being prepared for export (Source: www.khmertimeskh.com)
Phnom Penh (VNA) – Variousholidays in the last two months prompted a decline in Cambodia’s exports ofagricultural produce within the last two months, Minister of Agricuꦿlture,Forestry and Fisheries Veng Sakhon has said.
He made the remark while speaking to about100 farmers and exporters during a recent contract-farming signing ceremony inPhnom Penh. Rice exports for August and September fellnearly 30 percent each month, he said, explaining that Cambodian ports andcustoms are closed during holidays while other countries do not close theirsand imports and exports carry on as normal. In August, Cambodia had a one-week holiday,a substitute for the postponed Khmer New Year break in April, which thegovernment cancelled in an attempt to prevent the spread of COVID-19. The country had another three days ofholiday for its traditional Pchum Ben ceremony in September. Later this month, Cambodiawill celebrate four more days of holiday for the annual water festival and thememorial day of the late King Norodom Sihanouk. The Cambodian government reduced the numberof public holidays to 22 days starting from 2020 from 28 days last year. Public holidays in Vietnam for 2020 standat 12 while there are 18 in Thailand. Meanwhile, Indonesia has 20, Malaysia has20, Myanmar has 26, the Philippines has 18, and Singapore has 11./.
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Cambodian rice being prepared for export (Source: www.khmertimeskh.com) 
