Agricultural Value Chain Tender

Project Status Active Agriculture remains a crucial sector for the cambodian economy. The sector alone including processing transportation and trade of agriculture products accounts for 33. 7 of the gross domestic product gdp. The agriculture sector gdp grew by 4. 5 per annum during 2008-2012 mainly driven by the cultivated land expansion and high prices of agricultural products. The sector growth however slowed down during 2013-2016 0. 9 per annum because of the loss of those drivers and extreme weather events. Agricultural products are cambodias second largest export products after the textile and garment constituting 533 million 5. 2 of total export in 2016 nonetheless those agriculture exports are largely in raw form and their value addition occurs in other countries. To capture this forgone economic opportunity and diversify the economy it is important to strengthen the value chains of agricultural products. Value addition in agriculture sector enhanced. Value addition to selected agricultural products in the project area increased