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The company has a sterilisation factory with a capacity of 40 to 50 tonnes per day located in Kampong Speu province.<\/p>\n
Currently, the company has agreed deals for contract farming organisations to buy mangoes from nearby farms to supply to the factory for export.<\/p>\n
Lee Changhoon, chief executive officer of Hyundai Agro (Cambodia) Co Ltd, said the company is working to make the mangoes high quality for the market.<\/p>\n
The company is not struggling to enter the market, he said, adding that luckily the Korean market has big expectations for\u00a0 Keo Romeat, a popular mango variety from Cambodia, so the company has had very good responses to offers to supply to big supermarket chains, Lee said.<\/p>\n
\u201cKorea is a premium market, so we need to send high quality sanitary-treated mangoes there,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n
\u201cFirst impressions are very important. If we move too fast, customers in Korea may get mangoes of low quality. They then may start to think Cambodia\u2019s mangoes are not good. So we have to specially grade them so our mangoes enter the market smoothly. \u201cThat is why we will wait until January so we can get good quality, high-volume mangoes.\u201d<\/p>\n
Chhay says Cambodia needs sterilisation facilities capable of dealing with four to five\u00a0 tonnes per day during the harvest season, which normally runs from October through to the month of April.<\/p>\n
The more than 100,000 hectares of land planted with mango trees in Cambodia are mostly in Kampong Speu, Kampot, Battambang and Banteay Meanchey provinces.<\/p>\n
In Chayvan, president of the Kampong Speu Mango Association, said Cambodia generally exports the fruit in its raw form because there are no facilities in the Kingdom to process it, such as canning factories.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe lack packaging and processing facilities, so farmers have to sell their mangoes to traders who export them to neighbouring countries,\u201d Chayvan said.<\/p>\n
The variety known as Keo Romeat is the most popular for export, Chhay said, noting that there are 36 varieties in total. The ministry is working to research ways to make the variety of Keo Romeat mangoes unique among Cambodia\u2019s mangoes, particularly for export, Chhay said.<\/p>\n
At the moment, Cambodia has eight processing factories. Next year, at least three processing factories will be constructed, according to\u00a0 Chhay.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe processed mango products are mostly for exports. Only dried mango products are supplied in the local market,\u201dChhay said.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe cherish our hopes that the future of our mango industry is guaranteed. The market will be able to absorb our mango products without causing us worries over a plummet in price during the harvest season. This is just our hopes, and there is not any planning yet, but we have received promises from many investors.\u201d<\/p>\n
Asked if the government would provide emergency funding to mango exporters for installing facilities, government spokesman Phay Siphan said it is considering help through providing money for installing sterilisation facilities for mangoes much as it has\u00a0 done with the rice sector.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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