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Cambodian investment to boost pig-breeding
A Cambodian investor is set to invest US$4 million in
a new slaughterhouse and facilities to control the quality of imported pigs, in
a bid to boost quality in the countries pig-breeding
industry.
"This is an initiative which aims to revolutionise and bring, for the first
time, international sanitary standards to Cambodia," Mong Reththy, a Cambodian
People's Party senator and co-chair of the government's Agricultural and
Agro-Industry Working Group, said to the The Phnom Penh post this
week.
Last month, his company Mong Reththy Group announced plans to spend
$5 million importing pigs from a breeder in Yorkshire, England, in a move that
aims to tap soaring pork demand in Cambodia.
The first phase of the
project - quality control facilities to assess imported pigs - is now complete,
Mong Reththy said. The facilities, located on five hectares of land in Phnom
Penh's Dangkor district, cost $1 million to construct. They are now operational
and have the capacity to process up to 10,000 pigs per day. The second phase is
a state of the art abattoir.
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