Organic rice industry in
Cambodia
Presented by: Farmer and Nature Net
Current Situation of organic rice in
Cambodia ( 2011)
• No of producer group: 322 groups, from 322
villages, 94 communes, 28 districts, 7
provinces
• Total members: 2668 members
• Land area for organic rice production: 1,283
ha
• Amount organic rice produced in 2011: 1,200 t
• Amount supplied to CEDAC shop: 840 t
• CEDAC and FNN are providing technical
support in term of rice farming technique (
SRI), forming organic rice producer group and
network, and create the market for organic
rice product
• The product is supplied to local market and
international market ( Germany, USA…)
Initiative of key stakeholder
• Farmers are interested to produce organic rice as
it also reduce production cost and can be sold at
higher price
• NGOs: providing technical support in term
farming technique, form the group and looking
for the market for theproduct
• Consumer: support local organic product
• Government: support the forming of organic rice
and encourage farmers to do organic farming
Issue and challenge
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Irregular rainfall
Drought and flood
Pest outbreak
Lack of market and marketing actors
Limited participation of farmers in value
added
• High standard requirement for the product to
be exported
Impact of 3 global issues
• Land right:
– Land grabbing: farmers sometimes lose their
productive land
– Low production and low quality products
– Conflict occurance and migration
• Climate change
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Drought and flood  rice yield will go down
Pest break which lead to low rice yield
Cause high production cost
Failure farming business – farmers won’t do it again
next year
• Food price volatility
– Positive impact: farmer will be able to sell their
rice at higher price – higher income
– Negative impact: farmers will expense more
money on food which they can’t produce
Opportunity
• High demand of organic rice both in and
outside country
• Many people start to be aware and trend to
consume organic products
• There are some existing market channel for
organic rice
• The government support and exporting rice to
abroad is also government’s strategy
Action plan and recommendation
• Organic rice should be promoted country wide
• Link all producer group into cluster and union
• Farmers should involved in this industry and
form themselves into network
• Local and national authority support the
industry
• NGO should provide more capacity building
training related to value added
• Government should re-check the policy of
land investment ( esp. land concession)
• Government should rehabilitate the existing
irrigation system and build the new ones
where there is lack of irrigation system
• Government should facilitate to find the loan
or provide loan to farmers with low interest
rate to ensure that farmers will have enough
financial resource to invest in this industry
• Both government and NGO must try to look
for and expand the market for organic rice
products.