Standard palm sugar production is gaining traction

 

    Kampong Speu palm sugar production or standard sugar production until the end of 2020 has been receiving interest from farmers in About 80 people or families have applied to become members of the Kampong Speu Palm Sugar Promotion Association after understanding Clear on the benefits and prices of sugar on the market.

Regarding the production of Kampong Speu palm sugar and the application for membership in the Kampong Speu Palm Sugar Promotion Association, according to Mr. Sam Saroeun That this year, 80 people who are palm sugar producers have applied to become members of the Kampong Speu Palm Sugar Producers Association at the same time Where palm sugar production will begin in the near future.

Mr. Sam Saroeun, President of the Association for the Promotion of Palm Sugar, Kampong Speu stated, "After the application for membership to today. It has not yet been decided for them to become members. Because we still do not have time to inspect the location of palm trees, palm sugar production land, it must go according to the association's charge book or not. If we see that we have to go through the charge book, we will let them in and then we go down and teach them Produced according to the charge book we have.

The president of the association said that the inspection of the location of the farmers can be inspected at the end of this month or the beginning of the month. In December, the association will issue a decision to Kampong Speu sugarcane farmers. He added that I hope that the applicants for membership can be up to 95% and in the future the association will have The number of members of the scotch production has increased to more than 200 families. After we have registered the citizens to apply for full membership in the association, our production chain guarantees both Domestic supply, overseas supply.

He added that the production of palm sugar in the association area has the potential to produce a lot of sugar, but the export sugar still has problems. We need to help teach them to produce more export sugar, while the production of export sugar is 100 tons. For sale locally there are about 150 tons.

Mr. Sam Saroeun said that in the future, the association has a strategy to make local people know about Kampong Speu palm sugar. By selling at many specific locations, the price of palm sugar is set to increase to 7,000 riel per kilogram. In the past, the price was 6,500 riel.

Currently, there are 10 companies in Kampong Speu palm sugar products, and recently there are local traders in collaboration with Indian companies to apply for membership to buy sugar from the association. .