Anchor Moy wrote: ↑Sun Dec 10, 2017 3:38 pm

AndyKK wrote: ↑Sun Dec 10, 2017 2:49 pm

Imposter555 wrote: ↑Sun Dec 10, 2017 2:45 pm " The price is low, because the mangoes are out of season"
goes contrary to any fruit purchase i have ever made irrespective of quallity. these are not bad quality fruit i have purchased, just not optimal thai quality fruits. still 100 % edible

Most fruit and veg is imported from Thailand or Vietnam.

Optimal quality produce from Thailand and Vietnam is being sold elsewhere for higher prices. Thats why we get the cheap and not so good products in Cambodia.
1000r for two mangoes ? Nobody else wants them.

i still content that its just not worth it to get them here for that price. its not as if they have any difficulty filling trucks into the country. am also judging price by the mark up on other fruit, which seem to come from thailand, from the thai price.
dont know current vietnamese prices

Imposter555 wrote: ↑Sun Dec 10, 2017 3:00 pm er.. and the street seller ladys mangoes

lol

Which she can buy locally grown for 800 riel a kilo.


“Our mangoes in Kampong Speu province are recognised as high quality by buyers, but our legal system has proven a barrier to direct exports and our pest control capacity is still limited,” he said. Chayvan said the absence of SPS certification has resulted in Cambodian farmers having to sell their mangoes to Thai and Vietnamese brokers for as little as 800 riel ($0.20) per kilo.

According to Yin Chansothy, deputy director of the industrial crop department at the Ministry of Agriculture, Cambodia has about 65,000 hectares of mango farms, producing over 1 million tonnes per year. He said top-tiered mangoes like the ones that farmers sell for just 2,000 riel ($0.50) per kilo in Cambodia can fetch up to $30 per kilo at supermarkets in Europe and South Korea.

Looks like Cambodian growers are getting an alternative to selling to "middle men"

Sweet and juicy mangoes grown in Cambodia have been finding their way into top Asian markets for years, but until now only through Thai and Vietnamese brokers, and often repackaged or processed into juices and jams to disguise their Khmer origin.

A local subsidiary of Hyundai Corporation, the South Korean conglomerate best known for producing cars and SUVs, is sinking $4 million into developing a processing and distribution centre in Cambodia for mangoes and other fruits. Last November, Hyundai CNF Inc inked a deal with local mango producer Mao Legacy Co Ltd to establish the facility in Kampong Speu province.

“We invested $4 million into an exporting system and facility to produce high-quality mangoes for export to the global market,” Lee Changhoon, representative for Hyundai Corporation (Cambodia) Co Ltd, said yesterday.

The commercial facility will wash, process and package mangoes grown on Hyundai’s 400-hectare plantation, as well as Mao Legacy’s 2,000 hectares of mango farms. A planned expansion will add processing lines.

Lee said Hyundai’s investment in modern processing and packaging equipment will give local mango farmers an alternative to selling their crop to Thai and Vietnamese brokers. This will not only ensure higher earnings for the farmers, but will protect them from market vicissitudes, such as border closures and temporary import bans by Thai or Vietnamese authorities.

“We will teach farmers and local communities how to produce good-quality mangoes,” he said. “Farmers will no longer have to worry about buyers or price, because we will contract to buy from them.”

Agro-industrial conglomerate Mong Reththy Group (MRG), the first Cambodian company to officially export mangoes, already has a three-year lead on Hyundai. Since 2013 it has been working with a Singaporean partner to develop a mango processing plant in Preah Sihanouk province. The company is investing in washing and grading machinery, and recently ordered EPE foam-net machines, which envelop individual mangoes in soft packaging material for long-haul shipments.

MRG chairman Mong Reththy said last year his company delivered some 60 tonnes of mangoes to Europe. This year it is looking to crack into the Chinese market.
Lee said Hyundai’s investment in modern ... se market.

thai mangoes TODAY
green sour 55 baht/kilo,
sweet delicious yellow ones 70-80 baht/kilo

we are getting sweet ones in Kampot . they have them bagged on trees.

main pest of mangoes besides flying fox is fruit fly. yes they got fruit fly in cambodia. had forgotten fruit fly existed. havent seen them buzzing around my fruit purchases in thailand ever that i can recall, but soon notice them doing that here in cambodia. so yes understandable that the cambodian mangoes are encountering export barriers especially from countries that have the fruit fly pest under control

frank lee bent wrote: ↑Sun Dec 10, 2017 4:06 pm we are getting sweet ones in Kampot . they have them bagged on trees.

They taste nice.
Some bagged up here too..............
https://groceries.morrisons.com/webshop ... ntry=mango

a lot of countries call for microwave (?) irradiation for exactly that reason.
queensland got an exotic fruit fly in some years ago and spent 100's of millions eradicating it.

"we are getting sweet ones in Kampot . they have them bagged on trees."I highly suspect the trees have been sprayed with hormones. My trees are not even in flower nor should they be. The varieties I mentioned have fruit once a year. And why bags?

taabarang wrote: ↑Sun Dec 10, 2017 4:15 pm "we are getting sweet ones in Kampot . they have them bagged on trees."I highly suspect the trees have been sprayed with hormones. My trees are even in flower nor should they be. The varieties I mentioned have fruit once a year. And why bags?

I have also seen the bagged up ones on trees in many provences.

I've seen some fruit bagged in trees, but never mangoes.