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History & Culture about Cambodian Rice

Rice has been grown for thousands of years in Cambodia, perhaps as far back as 5,000 BCE. Even before the rise of the mighty Khmer Empire in the 9th Century CE, the people of what we now call Cambodia used elaborate systems to irrigate their rice fields.

 During the Khmer Empire, which dominated the region for six centuries from its base outside the modern city of Siem Reap, sophisticated irrigation systems enabled the subjects of the God-Kings to cultivate as many as three or four crops in a year. Even as a French protectorate in the mid-19th Century, rice was central to Cambodia’s economy. It was during those years that Battambang Province was turned over to large rice plantations, and today this western province is still regarded as the Kingdom’s rice basket.

Cambodia under Prince Norodom Sihanouk embarked on extensive irrigation projects in some of the most populous provinces, including Kampong Cham and Kandal, to try and improve the rice yield in a nation of difficult rainfall patterns and relatively poor soil.

 As a consequence of thousands of years of cultivation Cambodia is fortunate enough to grow some of the most desirable rice varieties in the world. In 2012, 2013 and 2014, three years in a row, Cambodian fragrant (Jasmine) Rice won the “World’s Best Rice” award from the International Commodity Institute (ICI) at the annual World Rice conferences of ‘The Rice Trader’ (TRT). The God-Kings of the Khmer Empire would surely have regarded that as nothing more than what Cambodia deserves
Export Statistics
by Metric Tons
Monthly 2023 2024 2025 2026
1. january 36.900 46.221 59.086 115.784
2. February 60.567 43.932 65.617 132.038
3. March 79.114 76.298 81.742 113.756
4. April 38.740 82.040 69.403 108.331
5. May 62.863 54.101 68.852 99.003
6. June 51.449 36.062 40.104 ---
7. July 33.075 40.892 39.563 ---
8. August 38.991 32.477 67.568 ---
9. September 54.882 33.890 104.408 ---
10. October 73.343 61.116 102.596 ---
11. November 65.706 68.533 102.704 ---
12. December 60.693 70.310 138.678 ---
Yearly Export 656.323 645.872 940.321 568.912
MOT- Sources: Secretariat One Window Service
(SOWS-REF) for rice export.