Shipment of Chinese salt reaches capital’s port

In a bid to meet domestic demand in a year in which production has been minimal, Cambodia has imported 5,000 tonnes of salt from China.

The ships carrying the product entered Phnom Penh Autonomous Port yesterday.

Salt production this year has been hampered by unfavorable weather conditions, and during harvesting season, which runs from January to April, heavy rains meant farmers had to stay home. As a result, output has been disappointing.

Bun Baraing, vice-president of the Kampot-Kep Salt Association, said the country will have to import nearly 30,000 tonnes during the next three months to meet demand after production failed to meet expectations during the last two years.

“Today’s shipment of 5,000 tonnes was the first one of several. We will keep importing until we reach 30,000 tonnes, and we will deliver the salt to the people in the Central Market in Phnom Penh,” Mr Baraing told Khmer Times yesterday.

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