Cambodia’s salt yield to fall
Salt production in Kampot and Kep provinces will be down this year due to unseasonal rain during the harvest season and a lack of laborers to farm the salt, according to the Salt Association of Kampot and Kep. Bun Baraing, co-executive director of the salt association, told Khmer Times on January 10 that salt production usually begins by the end of December but rain has prevented farmers from producing it until now. He said that farmers could not pump seawater into the fields to make the salt. Mr. Baraing said that last year’s salt yield was 140,000 tons from farms covering more than 4,500 hectares in the two coastal provinces. He pointed out that this year’s salt yield would be reduced because of the increased rainfall and lack of laborers. “We want salt production to be comparable with last year as much as possible, but we’re afraid we won’t make it since it depends on the weather,” he said. “Now we have 200 groups of salt producers with more than 4,500 people in the coastal provinces employed at salt farms.”
