Cambodia's rice export down 13 pct in 11 months

PHNOM PENH, Dec. 11 (Xinhua) -- Cambodia exported 497,240 tons of milled rice in the first 11 months of 2018, down 13 percent compared to the same period last year, according to the latest report on Tuesday.

Some 78 firms have brokered the country's rice for 61 countries and regions across the world, said the report from the Secretariat of One Window Service for Rice Export.

China is still the top buyer of Cambodian rice, followed by France, the Netherlands, Poland and Britain, it said.

Cambodia produced about 10.5 million tons of paddy rice in 2017, up 5.7 percent year-on-year, according to the Ministry of Agriculture.