Kampot province in southern Cambodia has long been famous for the quality of its pepper. During the French colonial era, thousands of acres of the spice were grown there. But under the Khmer Rouge regime in the late 1970s, the province’s pepper plantations were uprooted to make way for rice. However, a local company is [...]
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Cambodia’s Kampot Pepper Makes a Come back
April 21st, 2009 
Cambodia Economy Kampot province in southern Cambodia was long famous for the quality of its pepper. But under the Khmer Rouge regime in the late 1970s, almost all of the province’s pepper plantations were uprooted to make way for rice. Now a local company is leading an effort to revive Kampot pepper by earning it Geographical Indication [...]
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Tags: agriculture, agro-industry, black pepper, Cambodia, Cambodian farmers, Economy, international market, Kampot, Kampot pepper, pepper plantation 
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