Cambodia exported 169,658 tons of fresh and dried mangoes in the first 11 months of 2022, down 30.28 per cent year-on-year. Of this, fresh and dried mangoes respectively accounted for 152,994.68 tons and 16,663.5 tons, down 32.5 per cent and 0.68 per cent from the 226,577.71 tons and 16,777.82 tons recorded in the same time of 2021.
Importers of fresh Cambodian mangoes for the period included Vietnam, Thailand, mainland China, South Korea, Hong Kong and Austria, the Agriculture Ministry reported, listing import markets for the dried fruit as: mainland China, Thailand, the Philippines, Vietnam, Japan, Russia, Italy, the UK, South Korea, the US and Australia.
CEO Hun Lak of Rich Farm Asia Co Ltd, that grows mangoes of the Keo Romiet variety in Kampong Speu province, sees the Covid-19 restrictions implemented by Beijing as the biggest reason for the sharp year-on-year plunge in overall exports of the fresh fruit.
He claims that a considerable portion of fresh Cambodian mangoes that enter China are shipped overland through Vietnam, adding that heaps of merchandise ended up stuck on the Sino-Vietnamese border after Beijing tightened rules on imported goods as a result of the pandemic.
Source: phnompenhpost.com