Banana is an agricultural product that Cambodia has been promoting for export, but despite this, the size of the Cambodian banana market is the smallest when compared to the size of the global banana market in 2025.
According to a report on the analysis of the global banana market, it is estimated that the size of the global banana market in 2025 will reach nearly $142 billion. This is a large market share and can also be a great opportunity to promote and develop banana crops in Cambodia.
The global banana market has great potential for Cambodia, which is an agricultural country and is also a country that is growing bananas for export. However, the share of the global banana market that Cambodia can capture is very small.
According to the statistical report, the Cambodian banana market in 2024 was still very small, and not only that, not only did it not grow, but the export value also decreased in 2024.
According to the value of the world banana market And the fact that Cambodia was able to export bananas in 2024 was also quite valuable, reaching nearly $153 million, but compared to 2023, there was a decrease of 9.35 percent.
Based on this statistic, the banana market that Cambodia can achieve until 2024 is only 0.11 percent of the world market. Therefore, the Cambodian banana market is very small, requiring further encouragement and encouragement of farmers and agricultural investors to expand the Cambodian banana market to a larger size than it is currently.
So far The Cambodian banana market can be exported mostly to China, in addition to Japan and South Korea. The vast majority of the banana production that Cambodia can harvest still serves the domestic market and needs.
So far, the area that farmers can plant is almost everywhere, but the area of banana plantations that can be beneficially approved for export is only about 8,000 hectares.
To date, bananas are a crop that is not very picky about soil and can be grown in almost every part of the world, and any country can eat bananas. It is considered a source of human nutrition.
The countries known to import the most bananas are the United States, China, the Netherlands, Germany, Japan, Russia, France, and Italy, but it is known that banana crops are traded in the market in up to 109 countries. The countries that currently export the most bananas are Ecuador, the Philippines, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Panama, etc.
