Cambodia's first biofuel plant set to reopen

Cambodia’s only biofuel production plant is set to reopen in October, at the start of this year’s cassava harvest, after closing due to high crop prices recorded earlier this year. MH Bio-Energy Cambodia, located in Kandal province, opened in November 2008 with an initial investment of US$30 million. The factory needed at least 10,000 tons of cassava a month to produce ethanol, a compound that can be blended with petrol to reduce carbon emissions. “We stopped production since April due to the high price of dry-chip cassava,” Kim Jung-ho, MH Bio- Energy Cambodia director of administration, said. (July 13, 2010)