5월 11, 2020
Cambodia imported more than 1.2 million tonnes of agricultural fertilisers and chemical pesticides in 2019, up more than nine per cent from 1.1 million tonnes in 2018, said a report from the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries.
Of that, more than 1.14 million tonnes were fertilisers and 81,097 tonnes were chemical pesticides, it said.
The Kingdom imports more than 90,000 tonnes per month of about 2,600 types of fertilisers and pesticides to serve the agricultural sector.
Chiv Por Hor, the chairman of Poipet-based Chiv Por Hor Import Export Co Ltd, said on Tuesday his company asked the ministry to import 6,000 tonnes per year, but imported just more than 3,000 tonnes last year.
“My company sells a lot from May to August, which is farmers’ growing season,” he said.
The company imports hydrolysed protein-based organic nitrogen fertilisers from Thailand and distributes them in the Kingdom under the CPH brand with a golden gaur logo.
Meanwhile, an anonymous employee at a Japanese fertiliser company, said his company imports an average of 2,000 tonnes of fertilisers a year to distribute to farmers in Cambodia.http://https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/fertiliser-pesticide-imports-9