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PROJECT “NETWORK FOR AGRICULTURE AND RURAL DEVELOPMENT
THINK-TAKS FOR COUNTRIES IN MEKONG-SUB REGION” (NARDT)

Figure 9: Wet – season (organic) rice value chain in Preah VI
hear province - Cambodia

Source: Field survey – CDRI.
The rice value chain in Lao PDR consisted of the farmer or any of rice producers,
assemblers, cooperative, traders, millers, market, retailer, company, wholesalers,
state food enterprise, milling, polishing, and exporting, processor or institutional
buyer, consumer, and export channel. These are involved in the main process of rice
marketing which can be initially production, distribution, and consumption i.e., from
production to export. It is a proportion of the paddy/rice distribution from a single
market participating to another type of player.

The mapping depicts the percentage of the rice value chain or rice marketing
gathering with the participation of many stakeholders. The survey can be identified as
follows: Subsequently, farmers sell rice directly to exporting enterprises with the total
amount accounting for about 11% of total rice production. Next, rice is sold through
miller 22%, trader 20%, cooperative 7%, assemblers 35%, wholesaler 30%, and rice
exporting factories 15% thereof. It also depends on the supply and demand area i.e.
trader distribution to other actors such as millers 11%, market 40%, and consumer
94% or from cooperative to company and selling to exporter then is exported to
neighboring countries such as China, Viet Nam, Thailand, and EU. According to the
Food and Agriculture Organization, Lao PDR has a substantial post-harvest loss of
around 15% of milled rice output, and relatively little rice is used for feed (USDA,
2020).

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