‘Don’t fall for empty promises’

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Prime Minister Hun Sen has urged farmers to not imagine opposition events’ guarantees to lift the costs of agricultural merchandise and assist discover markets to promoting them.

“The agricultural sector right now is in a troublesome state of affairs the place it’s doable to provide however there isn’t a market and that is why politicians are benefiting from them via firebrand guarantees.

“These empty guarantees can solely be made by the opposition events, however the authorities can not make them,” Mr Hun Sen mentioned when talking on the groundbreaking ceremony of the development and improve of Nationwide Highway 41 at Kampong Speu province yesterday.

He urged the individuals to contemplate the explanation why politicians are making such guarantees.

“The Cambodian authorities has been working exhausting to search out markets for farmers via bilateral and multilateral commerce negotiations and agreements.

“By means of the Cambodia-China Free Commerce Settlement, extra Cambodian agricultural merchandise have been allowed to be exported to China extra extensively than ever earlier than, and the Cambodia-Korea Free Commerce Settlement has formally began, making extra Cambodian items to be exported to South Korea.

“On the identical time, the Regional Complete Financial Partnership (RCEP), which incorporates 10 ASEAN nations and 5 different free commerce companions, particularly Australia, China, Japan, South Korea and New Zealand, additionally contributes to the growth of the Cambodian agricultural market,” he mentioned.

RCEP is a free commerce settlement between the ten member states of the ASEAN embody, Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam and its 5 companions embody Australia, China, Japan, New Zealand and South Korea.

Thach Setha, Vice-President of the Candlelight Get together (CP), couldn’t be reached for remark yesterday.

Theng Savoeun, the director of the Coalition of Cambodian Farmer Group (CCFC), mentioned addressing the costs of farmers’ agricultural merchandise is crucial.

“Due to this fact, the ruling social gathering and the opposition should present a transparent will to assist resolve farmers’ issues.

“Opposition events or the ruling social gathering have the appropriate to set their insurance policies and methods to enhance the lives of farmers,” he mentioned.

He added that the federal government has not proven sufficient will to assist farmers.

“We acknowledge that the ruling social gathering has tried to resolve the problem till the change of the Minister of Agriculture, nevertheless it doesn’t appear to be fruitful but.

“We need to see them present a better dedication to serving to our farmers,” Savoeun added.

In response to the report of the Ministry of Agriculture, within the first 10 months of 2022, Cambodia exported agricultural merchandise, incomes $3,069,972,349.

Rice exports amounted to 509,249 tons, a rise of 49,080 tons (10.67%) and exports of agricultural merchandise apart from rice amounted to 4,669,974 tons, a rise of 448,821 tons (10.63%).