[PHNOM PENH POST]
A GROUP of Thai businessmen have planned an investment and trade mission
to Cambodia for the end of the month, officials at the Thai Embassy in
Phnom Penh told The Post yesterday.
“There are 30 Thai
businessmen visiting here on the 29th to the 31st,” said Jiranan
Wongmongkol, commercial counselor at the Royal Thai Embassy. She added
that the trip had been confirmed two weeks ago.
“They are coming
here to look for opportunities to invest in agriculture and to export
[Cambodian] rice to other countries in the world,” she said.
The
Thailand Export Association will host investors seeking land to grow
rice, cassava, corn and other agricultural products, as well as
businessmen looking to enter the Kingdom’s rice export business.
The
delegation plans to meet with Minister of Commerce Cham Prasidh, the
Cambodian Rice Millers’ Associations, the Cambodian Chamber of Commerce
and the state-owned Green Trade Company. “We try to do everything to
attract Thai investors to invest in here,” Jiranan Wongmongkol said,
“Such as our plan to do a trade fair two times this year.”
“We
always told them about the real situation in here – which is that
[Cambodia] is a] good, safe and confident [place] for them to invest,”
she said.
Chan Nora, Secretary of State of the Ministry of
Commerce, said yesterday that in general, Cambodia’s export to Thailand
amount to only 1 percent of the Kingdom’s total, consisting of are
mostly agriculture products.
Thai businesses have already invested in the retail, hotel and telecommunications sectors in Cambodia.
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