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GI benefits yet to be fully realised

16 July 2013
The Phnom Penh Post
Agricultural production / Agriculture and fishing / Crop products and commodities / Economy and commerce / Exports / Maize (corn) / Pepper / Rice / Rice / Sugar / Trade
AFD / Agence Francaise de Developpement / Banteay Meanchey Province / Battambang / Chan Sokha / FAO / fish paste / geographical indication / GI / GI Status / GI-labelled products / intellectual property / Kampong Speu palm sugar / Kampong Speu Palm Sugar Promotion Association / Kampot / Kampot durian / Kampot pepper / Kampot Pepper Promotion Association / Ke Mony / Khmer Silk Village Association / KPPA / Kratie province grapefruits / KSPSPA / Laos / Milled Rice / Ministry of Commerce / National Committee for Intellectual Property Rights / Nguon Lay / Op Rady / palm sugar / palm trees / pepper plantations / Phnom Srok Silk / Siem Reap prahok / Smach milled rice / sugar / Svay Rieng / Thailand / UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization / World Trade Organization

While Kampot pepper and Kampong Speu palm sugar carry the brand-building Geographical Indication (GI) status, newcomers seeking the same tag continue to wait for funding to get their products off the ground. In 2010, Kampot pepper and Kampong Speu palm sugar were the first Cambodian goods ...

http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/gi-benefits-yet-be-fully-realised

Sugar Playing Catch-Up With Spice

15 March 2013
Independent European Daily Express
Agricultural production / Agriculture and fishing / Biofuel crops / Crop products and commodities / Economic land concessions and plantations / Economy and commerce / Environment and natural resources / Exports / Investment / Land / Land tenure and land titling / Pepper / Public land lease / Sugar / Trade
arsenic contamination / bio-pesticides / Bridges Across Borders / Cambodian Organic Agricultural Association / COrAA / EBA / EU / European Union aid / Everything but Arms trade agreement / FDI / forced evictions / foreign direct investment / France / Geographical Indication status / GI label / GI registration / GI Status / Japanese aid / Kampong Chhang province / Kampong Chhnang / Kampong Speu / Kampong Speu Palm Sugar Promotion Association / Kampot / Kampot pepper / Kampot Pepper Promotion Association / KPPA / KPSA / Land grabs / Ministry of Commerce / motorbike taxi drivers / palm sugar / palm tree / palm trees / pepper / Pepper Project / poisonous chemicals / Starling Farm / sugar / sugar cane / sugar cane industry / sugar cane plantations / sugar production / Sun Somnang / Taiwan / Takeo / Takeo Province / Tourism

Dotted with rice fields flanked by palm trees, Cambodia’s southeastern province of Kampong Speu is nothing short of picturesque. But behind the idyllic exterior is an on-going struggle to turn this region’s natural beauty into a global attraction and improve the lot of poor local farmers, ...

http://www.iede.co.uk/news/2013_1290/sugar-playing-catch-spice

New palm oil plant for $16m

6 March 2013
The Phnom Penh Post
Agricultural production / Agriculture and fishing / Crop products and commodities / Economy and commerce / Energy / Exports / Extractive Industries / Non-renewable energy production / Oil and gas resources / Palm oil / Trade
crude palm oil refinery / Europe / Indian aid / Malaysian aid / Mong Reththy / Mong Reththy Group / MRG / palm oil market / palm trees / Preah Sihanouk / Preah Sihanouk Province / Thailand

Mong Reththy Group (MRG) will begin construction on a US$16 million crude palm oil refinery next month in Preah Sihanouk province, where several thousand hectares of palm trees are grown, insiders said yesterday. Mong Reththy, president of the eponymous firm, told the Post that his company ...

http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013030661772/Business/new-palm-oil-plant-for-16m.html

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