[PHNOM PENH POST]
Cambodian Center for Study and Development in Agriculture is set to sign
an agreement to buy palm sugar with Geographical Indicator status from
local producers, with the aim of conducting international exports to
Singapore.
CEDAC’s enterprise manager Lang Seng Haung said the
organisation is set to ink a deal tomorrow with Kampong Speu Palm Sugar
Improving Farmer Association to buy 15 tonnes of palm sugar each year.
The price would be set at around US$1,000 per tonne. “We hope that CEDAC
will get palm sugar products of high quality that can be exported into
the international markets,” he said.
Kampong Speu palm sugar was
granted GI status last year, under a World Trade Organisation
agreement. It brands products based on the areas for which they are
famous, such as champagne from France and Cambodia’s Kampot pepper.
Sam
Saroeun, president of Cambodian Sugar Association in Kampong Speu, said
that the organisation had already inked a new contract this year to
sell 10 tonnes of sugar to a company called Development &
Appropriate Technology. He added that the association has 172 producers
in Samraong Tong and Odong districts.
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