Mom Kunthea / Khmer Times

Synopsis: Besides rice, Cambodia exports many key agricultural products, including fresh and dried cassava, cashew nuts, fresh mangoes, fresh bananas, corn and longans.

In the first nine months, Cambodia exported over 11 million tonnes of agricultural products, marking a 30.43 percent increase compared to the same period last year, and generating revenues of about $3.89 billion, according to a report released yesterday by the General Department of Agriculture of the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (MAFF).

The report added that total exports recorded in the National Phytosanitary Database reached about 11.13 million tonnes, including 5.3 million tonnes of non-rice crops and 5.84 million tonnes of paddy rice (5.2 million tonnes of paddy rice and 596, 343 tonnes of milled rice), shipped to 84 destinations worldwide.

Ngin Chhay, Director General of the General Department of Agriculture of MAFF, stated in the report that in the first nine months of 2025, Cambodia’s crop exports increased about 2.60 million tonnes compared to the same period in 2024. Among them, exports of non-rice crop grew by 340,577 tonnes, paddy rice exports rose over 2 million tonnes and milled rice exports increased by 150,430 tonnes.

Cambodia exported many key agricultural products besides rice, including about 2.05 million tonnes of fresh cassava, 1.36 million tonnes of dried cassava, 626,000 tonnes of cashew nuts, 207,000 tonnes of fresh mangoes, nearly 252,000 tonnes of fresh bananas, over 153,000 tonnes of corn, 21,734 tonnes of longans, and 95 other crop products totaling more than 621,000 tonnes.

“The total revenue from crop product exports reached about $3.89 billion. Of this, non-rice crops accounted for about $2.38 billion, paddy rice for $1.05 billion, and milled rice about $455 million,” Chhay said.

Chhay further said that although total exports rose by 30.43 percent, some products recorded declines. Fresh cassava exports dropped by nearly 17 percent; however, exports of dried cassava and cassava flour surged as farmers shifted from fresh cassava to dried and processed forms for longer storage and higher value.

He added that in fact, exports of dried cassava increased by 57.62 percent while cassava flour increased by 83.49 percent compared to the same period in 2024.

Exports of fresh mangoes decreased by more than 4 percent, as local factories processed more mangoes into dried mango jam for export abroad. As a result, dried mango jam exports increased by 27.54 percent compared to last year.

Following Thailand’s one-sided closure of land border crossings, Cambodia exported 1,728.19 tonnes of agricultural products to Thailand by sea, valued almost $6 million, from June 24 to the end of September 2025.

In September alone, exports totalled 377.40 tonnes, worth about $1.7 million, a drop of 6.56 percent compared to August.

Published Date: October 8, 2025