Phnom Penh Post
By Rann Reuy
Phnom Penh Sugar will begin producing white sugar this month for the Cambodian market to reduce the demand for imported sugar, according to a spokeswoman for the firm.
Chheang Kemsoun, a representative of Phnom Penh Sugar, told the Post yesterday the company would produce white sugar for sale locally as it had grown 40,000 hectares of sugar cane.
“The factory will start manufacturing white sugar on November 19. The equipment has been installed,” she said. The factory is in Kampong Speu province.
Chheang Kemsoun said about 70 tonnes of sugar cane a hectare would be harvested and 10 per cent of the harvest processed into white sugar.
Another sugar factory will begin operating in the northeastern provinces soon.
According to Kratie provincial govenor Sar Chumrong, the factory will be able to produce 7,000 tonnes of white sugar and 500 tonnes of cane sugar a day.
It will also produce 20,000 litres of ethanol a day and 26 megawatts of electricity.
“The factory will use six megawatts of energy and the other 20 megawatts will be purchased by the Electricity Authority of Cambodia,” Sar Chumrong said.
Data from the Ministry of Commerce shows that in 2010, Cambodia exported 10 million kilograms of white sugar to England and imported about 23 million kilograms from Thailand, Malaysia, and Hong Kong.
The Ministry of Commerce did not have data available for the export and import of sugar this year.
To contact the reporter on this story: Rann Reuy at reuy.rann@phnompenhpost.com
6 comments:
Blood sugar? Khmerization prefers to buy it from Uncle Ho or from Thailand instead. Cambodian workers in sugar cane plantation or in sugar refineries please go to cut wood in Thailand and get killed there. Sorry for that. That Khmerization'human right! We won't have jobs for you in sugar production sector. That's human right! Weird hey? Sorry for IndianInvestors in Stung Taeng who invested in sugar plantation and for refinery. He(Khmerization) just says nonsense but doesn't really meant it.
Anyone understand this Youn?
If we were not produce our own sugar and can buy just from youn you help youn? Who can benefit from the fact that always comdemn Khmer sugar as blood sugar even if it is produce in Stung Traeng or elswhere in the country. Blood everywhere?
What people understand is that qualifying Khmer sugar as a blood sugar no matter which company produces it is campaigning against Khmer sugar. That can only benefit the neighbor countries who sell sugar to us. Everyone knows that we bought a lot of sugar from Vietnam and Thailand. So calling Khmer sugar as blood sugar you can only benefit youn in particular. People understand that you are helping the sellers and hindering Cambodian efforts to create jobs for Cambodians in sugar can plantations and jobs in sugar refineries. I wonder whom you working for by thinking this way?
Define "bloods sugars " why bloods!? Do they kill people for the land that they plant sugar trees? Whats bloods sugars means? If we talking about land concession we blamed Cpp corrupted clans whose stolen khmers land and leased to foreigners company to plants these sugar trees but don't this plantation company gives these farmers job to work in their factory/refining sugar?
Who is to blame for the so called "bloods sugar"? The company or the Cpp whose seized the land from khmers farmers? Cpp is to blamed,Cpp took bribes from this company kept the money in their pocket lets the farmers landless and jobless.That is what you call bloods money?
Curious.
"Blood sugar" because many Khmer were left homeless and many villagers were shot and removed from their homeland, just like "Blood diamong" in Africa, where many lives were lost when the Whites traded the slaves in return for diamond and lives were exchanged for a small price.
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