PHNOM PENH, March 11 (Xinhua) — Cambodia exported 390,599 tons of fresh and dry cassava in 2015, a 34-percent rise compared to the year before, according to the report of the Ministry of Commerce on Friday.

The Southeast Asian country earned a gross revenue of 60 million U.S. dollars from the export last year, it added.

Som Yen, director of Banteay Meanchey province-based cassava broker Malai Trading Company, said the price of cassava, or tapioca, in 2015 was higher than that of 2014.

"Averagely, a ton of dry cassava was purchased from farmers at the price of 165 U.S. dollars last year, up 16 percent if compared to the year before," he told Xinhua.

Cassava, used to produce animal feed and ethanol, has been exported to Thailand, Vietnam, South Korea and China. Usually, farmers plant it in March or April and harvest from November to February.

According to the Ministry of Agriculture, farmers have grown cassava on the land of more than 420,000 hectares, yielding annual output of about 8 million tons of fresh cassava.