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I read article published by Cambodia Daily on “Janpanes Man trying to revive Khmer Pepper”. It is every interested because japanese, Hirononu Kurata, 36, have been growing a 1 hectare of pepper farm in Koh Kong province in 1997. He is a former aid worker who supported refugeer returning to the country in the 1993 UN-sponsored election.

Kurata said that “I want to start a business in Cambodia so that people who rely on foreign aid for their living can support themeselves financially.”

In the early this year, there was a four-day government-backed trade fair in Tokyo in an attempt to introduce goods from Cambodia, Laos, Burma, Vietname and Thailand. Kurata participated in this exhibition in an attempt to explore the japanese market and introduce his organic black, white and dusky red, fully red pepers to potential buyers and Japanese trading houses.

He added that “with the poor hugiene situation in Cambodia, we go to pain to deliver peppers free of buge, mold and impurities to customers abroad. But we can boast of the organically growing method and hope that hight-end supermarkets in Japan will handle our products.”

Kurata’s products have been selling in Phnom Penh and Siem Reap, targeting foreign tourists. His items were vacuum-packed and decorative bags for wrapping available under the brand name “Kurata Peper”.

In 1960s, Cambodia was ranked as the world’s third-to-sixth largest pepper producer, churning out thousands of tons and selling the product domestically and abroad.

In the last decade, the pepper vines have been planting in Kam Pot, Kampong Cham provinces. Most of its products were exported to Thailand and Vietname.

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