CAMBODIA – The sole biofuel production plant is set to reopen in October having closed earlier in the year because of high crop prices.
The plant will reopen at the start of the cassava harvest.
Accordinf to a report in the Phnom Penh Post the plant needs at least 10,000 tones of cassava a month to produce ethanol.
However, the plant was forced to shut down because production costs for the company were squeezed at both ends earlier this year by high domestic cassava prices coupled with a low final selling price on European markets.
The company has been contracting farmers to grow the crop to combat high prices by increasing supply and it hopes that prices will fall as farmers harvest the crop.
MH Bio-Energy Cambodia, located in Kandal province, opened in November 2008 with an initial investment of US$30 million.
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