frank lee bent wrote:any recollection of price?

Around $7-8kg iirc. Mother in law sends it down.

met a couple Canucks here in Kampot a few years back who were buying it in a big way for the smoked salmon manufacturers back home.

Much respect to EU in general, but this EU trade thingie won't help pepper either. And pepper plantations don't seem like targets of the EU.

Entering the "Twilight Zone" of politics, trade barriers, and regional powers. George Orwell was right about regional formations ...

Are regional trade wars the solution? Is large government what WE need?

Just asking, not taking sides right now ...

Cambodia hoping to spice up Swiss cheese with Kampot pepper
14 March 2018
Seeking to find new markets for Cambodia’s world-renowned Kampot pepper, the Ministry of Commerce held talks last week with Swiss dairy La Maison du Gruyere.

During a meeting Saturday with Eric Thevenod and Georges Magnin, representatives of La Maison du Gruyere, Commerce Minister Pan Sorasak discussed the many attributes and uses of the famous Cambodian product, and suggested it will be a great addition to recipes used by the Swiss diary to concoct their cheeses.

The Swiss cheese producers said they will consider adding the pepper to their recipes, and promised to visit Kampot’s pepper farms while in Cambodia.

“If Kampot pepper is used to produce cheese in Europe, the market for this product will expand enormously,” Mr Sorasak told reporters.
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/113797/camb ... ot-pepper/

epidemiks wrote: ↑Wed Dec 20, 2017 10:23 am Kampot production is tiny compared to Memot and surrounds in Tbong Khmum.

Kampot: 110 ha under cultivation as of 2015;
Tbong Khmum: 2,762 ha as of 2016.

I get mine from memot. Good pepper, far cheaper.

hows the quality so far?

ramzchillin wrote: ↑Sat Mar 17, 2018 5:15 pm

epidemiks wrote: ↑Wed Dec 20, 2017 10:23 am Kampot production is tiny compared to Memot and surrounds in Tbong Khmum.

Kampot: 110 ha under cultivation as of 2015;
Tbong Khmum: 2,762 ha as of 2016.

I get mine from memot. Good pepper, far cheaper.

hows the quality so far?

Good enough for me. Tastes like pepper, and a kilo is costs about the same as about 200g of supermarket pepper.

Kampot pepper production is expected to be down this season.Will the prices go up ?

Kampot pepper hit by climate change
20 March 2018
Farmers of Kampot pepper have had a rough planting season due to climate change, but the decrease in production is unlikely to seriously affect the market, according to the head of the Kampot Pepper Promotion Association (KPPA).

KPPA President Ngoun Lay said he expected his members to harvest just 75 tonnes of pepper by the end of the growing season in June, which would mark a 26 percent decrease compared to last year’s production.

“The yield is less than last year, as in the beginning of season, the flowers of the pepper plant fell a lot because of climate change,” Lay said, adding that it wouldn’t be an immediate problem for farmers due to adequate reserves...
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/ ... ate-change

Cambodia's Kampot pepper immune to price slump
World's most sought-after pepper has been immune to the global price plunge, remaining stable at as high as $28 per kilogramme.
30 Apr 2018

The price of pepper around the world has fallen and is forecast to stay low because of over-supply from Vietnam and India.

But one remote region in southern Cambodia seems to be immune from the slump.

Al Jazeera's Wayne Hay reports from Kampot, where farmers say they produce the world's most expensive pepper.
VIDEO: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2018/04/ ... 45296.html

MFI looks to provide loans to the struggling pepper sector
31 May 2018
- PRASAC, the Kingdom’s largest microfinance institution (MFI), has launched a new loan program for pepper farmers to help the industry get back on its feet after plunging prices all but decimated it.

However, the farmers are cautious in welcoming the news, coming as it does just before the planting season.

They expressed worry that access to such loans would come with “heavy” terms and may only be applicable to larger plantations.

Prasac Vice President Say Sony said on Wednesday that the MFI views pepper production as a good investment in the long run, and that his institution is still willing to provide loans to farmers for the coming growing season.

“We hope that the price of pepper will be better in the future, and we still support farmers growing the crop, even though it is at a higher risk since its price stumbled. “However, farmers won’t rely on the crop alone as a source of revenue for repayment,” Sony said.

He said that since pepper is an agricultural product, loan terms, including the interest rate, would be the same as other crops. The outstanding loans to pepper plantations currently stand at $18.5 million, he said.

Over the past few years, farmers across the Kingdom switched from planting crops like cassava and rubber to developing pepper plantations because of its high prices.

As a result, the number of plantations, and thus the supply of pepper, had increased significantly, leading to the gradual decline in price.

Data from the Ministry of Agriculture says the total cultivated area of pepper nationwide was 7,471 hectares so far this year, up 12 percent from 6,678 hectares in mid-2017.

Tbong Khmum province, an eastern province that shares a border with Vietnam, contains nearly half of the country’s pepper plantations.

Yin Sopha, executive director of the Dar-Memot Pepper Agricultural Development Cooperative in Tbong Khmum, which comprises of 288 farmers, said on Wednesday that pepper prices had fallen to approximately 11,000 riel ($2.75) per kilogram. It was between 15,000 and 20,000 riel last year.

According to Sopha, the drop in price has caused lending institutions to stop providing loans to farmers in view of the high risks.
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/ ... per-sector

Rain Affecting Pepper Harvests
23 July 2018
Kampot: After heavy rains, Kampot's coastal zone is struggling to harvest the pepper crops. Many plants have been completely destroyed or damaged, affecting the standards of the famous Kampot Pepper.

According to Ngu Lay Lay, president of the Kampot Pepper Association, who said that farmers who have not yet harvested all the plantations will face problems. It will not affect those who have already harvested and dried properly, but only for those who have not finished harvesting and have not managed to get the crop properly dry. "

The crop could be down by 15% overall, and the damage to plants that have already been picked could also affect next year’s harvest .

Growers also complained about a shrinking market, with more competition from bigger companies moving into the area and raising production levels, which has kept the price down.