January’s Salt harvest Destroyed by Rains
Heavy rainfall over the weekend has destroyed all the salt that was due to be harvested this month in Kep and Kampot provinces, farmers said yesterday. “The salt that we planned to harvest this week was completely destroyed because of heavy rain,” said Um Chon, chief of the Kep-Kampot Salt Producers Community, adding that farmers last year harvested between 20 and 30 percent of the year’s salt in January. …
