Local rice miller and exporter Amru Rice has started reaping the benefits of its partnership with the International Financial Corporation (IFC), beginning to collect rice from farmers working under contract farming schemes in Kampong Cham province.
As part of a joint advisory project, IFC, a member of the World Bank, is supporting Amru Rice over a three-year period to implement Sustainable Rice Platform (SRP) standards and practices in the company’s supply chain.
“During the first season, we plan to collect 3,000 tonnes from our contracted farmers,” Song Saran, CEO of Amru Rice, told Khmer Times.
Mr Saran said they have just started the purchases from farmers that have met SRP standards.
“We will buy 500 tonnes a week from them,” he said, adding that there are about 500 farmers in the community they’ve partnered with, working on 1,000 hectares of land.
The Sustainable Rice Platform (SRP) is a multi-stakeholder platform established by the UN Environment and the International Rice Research Institute.
