PHNOM PENH, December 28, 2011 (Cambodia Herald), A commune in Kompong Cham is selling hundreds of tons of kapok resin to Vietnam every year, a local official said Tuesday.
Seng Ol, chief of Peam Prathnar commune in Koh Sotin district, about 120 km north of Phnom Penh, said Vietnamese traders bought about 200 tons of the resin a year.
"We can sell it for around 5,000 riel ($1.25) a kilo but we don’t know why they come to buy our kapok resin," he said. "Some of them told us that it's used to make desserts, others say it's for traditional medicine."
Most kapok trees grow in Chi He, one of 13 villages in the commune. Ly Born, the village chief, said Chi He had 178 families most of which grow kapok.
"We don’t sell the resin only, but we also sell the fiber and the tree itself," he said. "After three years, the tree provides us with fruit from which we take the fiber. When the tree gets old, we start to gather the resin. And when it dies, we use the wood."
Ly Born said the leaves of the tree were also used to make incense and animal feed.
Seng Ol, chief of Peam Prathnar commune in Koh Sotin district, about 120 km north of Phnom Penh, said Vietnamese traders bought about 200 tons of the resin a year.
"We can sell it for around 5,000 riel ($1.25) a kilo but we don’t know why they come to buy our kapok resin," he said. "Some of them told us that it's used to make desserts, others say it's for traditional medicine."
Most kapok trees grow in Chi He, one of 13 villages in the commune. Ly Born, the village chief, said Chi He had 178 families most of which grow kapok.
"We don’t sell the resin only, but we also sell the fiber and the tree itself," he said. "After three years, the tree provides us with fruit from which we take the fiber. When the tree gets old, we start to gather the resin. And when it dies, we use the wood."
Ly Born said the leaves of the tree were also used to make incense and animal feed.
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