Monster sugar mill eats through sugarcane supply
Just three months since starting production, Cambodia’s largest sugar mill is sitting idle due to a shortage of its primary input sugarcane, a provincial Agriculture Ministry official said on August 7. Poeung Trida, director of the Preah Vihear Agricultural Department, said Rui Feng (Cambodia) International Company’s mammoth $360 million sugar mill in Preah Vihear province halted production just 50 days into operation after exhausting its stockpile of sugarcane. “The mill has postponed its production as there isn’t enough sugarcane to keep the production line going,” he said.
