Solving Cambodia's Pepper Problems

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Scanning the articles posted in this thread, the numbers for pepper production, demand, prices etc seem arbitrary to each one.

Makes you wonder what real figures actually are
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They still manage to sell some of it in France for astronomical sums.
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nemo wrote: Thu Jun 04, 2020 4:36 pm They still manage to sell some of it in France for astronomical sums.
But a lot is sold for about 7.000r per kilo now, which is very, very cheap. Preparing one ha. to grow pepper will set you back 40-50k USD and you have to wait about 3 years before you have any crops.
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Fair Trade Kampot Pepper Helps Cambodian Farmers and Canadian Food Banks
August 2020
Joseph MacLean helped to create a fair trade distribution system for Cambodia’s Kampot Pepper.

The 50 Million Meals Campaign is trying to create a fair trade distribution system for the Kampot pepper to support Cambodian farmers and local food banks in British Columbia, Canada.

In the 1980s, the Cambodian Genocide took two million lives, including many pepper farmers. Consequently, crop yield dropped significantly. The annual production of Kampot pepper plummeted from 3,000 tons in 1960 to two tons in 2000, according to Joseph MacLean, founder of 50 Million Meals in his Kickstarter campaign video.

Over the last two decades farmers have started to recover, but the pandemic is creating major setbacks. According to MacLean, there were almost no international sales of Kampot pepper in the first few months of the outbreak.

“[The farmers] are sitting on about 90 tons of pepper that they need to get to market or more farmers will abandon the business or potentially lose their farms,” MacLean tells FoodTank.

MacLean started the 50 Million Meals Campaign to help Kampot pepper farmers recover from the genocide. “[Pepper farmers] are rebuilding, but [they] need fair trade access to Western markets,” says MacLean.

The Campaign is working with a collective of 400 small, organic pepper farmers in Southern Cambodia to develop a community-based, fair trade distribution system for the Kampot pepper.

MacLean says that the system, which pays farmers a fair price for their pepper, has the potential to greatly improve small farmers’ livelihoods.

MacLean also hopes that the Campaign can support his own community in British Columbia. He explains that a portion of the revenue from pepper sales will go toward the province’s local food banks. During the pandemic, 50 Million Meals is also donating 50 percent of their revenue to local food charities.
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Kampot Pepper Yield Drops to 90 Tonnes
AKP Phnom Penh, August 28, 2020 --

Kampot Pepper Promotion Association said the yield of Kampot pepper, a certified geographical indication (GI) product, has dropped to 90 tonnes at the end of this year’s harvest season, down from 125 tonnes in 2019.

The declining yield of the commodity was much related to unexpected weather, said the association's president Mr. Nguon Lay.

During the COVID-19 lockdown, the markets for GI pepper has been affected and the pepper remained in warehouses, Mr. Nguon Lay said on Friday.

Currently, the association has 68 pepper producers with more than 290 hectares of pepper plantations.

The pepper is seasonally harvested from March to June.

Kampot pepper comes in three varieties – black, red and white with the price of US$1,500, US$2,500, and US$2,800 per tonnes, respectively.

The main markets for Cambodia’s GI pepper are the EU countries, the U.S., Japan, and South Korea.
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Jerry Atrick wrote: Thu Jun 04, 2020 4:28 pm Scanning the articles posted in this thread, the numbers for pepper production, demand, prices etc seem arbitrary to each one.

Makes you wonder what real figures actually are
On CEO, we just post the published figures, but do not have the means to fact check.
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Cambodia Exports Over 14,000 Tons of Pepper to 17 Countires, Up 400% in First 6 Months
07/07/21 22:11

Phnom Penh (FN), Jul. 5 – Cambodia exports more than 14,000 tons of pepper to 17 countries, up nearly 400% in the first six months of 2021, according to Agriculture Ministry’s report seen by Fresh News on Monday.

The 17 countries include Belgium, Canada, Czech Republic, France, Germany, India, Japan, Korea, Poland, Russia, Sweden, Switzerland, China, United Kingdom, United Arab Emirates, the United States and Vietnam.

Chan Pich, vice president of Cambodia Pepper and Spices Federation, told Fresh News earlier that the price of pepper in 2021 will increase by about USD 1 per kilogram compared to 2020.
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A good story here on the refinements of Kampot pepper.
A little bit better than the average tourist drivel that usually appears in magazine reports like this (except for the KR headline trope)

https://www.npr.org/2020/03/14/81360849 ... a-comeback
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Cambodia’s Pepper Exports Soar Over 500% in First Eight Months
AKP Phnom Penh, September 02, 2021 --

Cambodia has exported 24,847 tonnes of pepper to foreign markets in the first eight months of this year, according to H.E. Veng Sakhon, Minister of Agriculture, Forestry, and Fisheries.

The figure saw a sharply increase of 551 percent compared to the same period last year, he added.

Vietnam alone bought 24,476 tonnes, making the country the biggest market for Cambodian pepper. The other markets were Germany, India, France, Belgium, Taiwan of China, Poland, Czech Republic, Japan, South Korea, Russia, Singapore, the U.S., Sweden, the UK, Australia, Switzerland, Canada, Kazakhstan, and United Arab Emirates.

Pepper is grown in many areas in Cambodia, including Kampong Cham, Thbong Khmum, Kampot and Kep provinces. Kampot pepper is the most well known with high price. It was granted with the geographical indication (GI) from the EU in 2016 and from the World Trade Organisation (WTO) in 2010.

Cambodia’s Kampot pepper has been also registered for international protection in 32 countries under the Geneva Act of the Lisbon Agreement on Appellations of Origin and Geographical Indications.
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Blackpool man has won a Golden Fork award for his Cambodian peppers
A Fylde coast man has picked up a national award for his gourmet Cambodian pepper.
By Tim Gavell
Monday, 12th September 2022, 4:55 am
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Kadode Kampot Pepper UK was crowned this year’s Great Taste Supreme Champion for its Fermented Fresh Green Kampot Peppercorns at the Golden Fork ceremony at Southwark Cathedral, beating 14,000 other food products.

The firm was founded by former Marton man Michael Winters who discovered the taste of the local peppercorns on a trip to Cambodia’s Kampot province in 2008.

In 2012 he teamed up with the local producers FarmLink Ltd and began to import the peppercorns to the UK.
https://www.blackpoolgazette.co.uk/busi ... rs-3839528
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