Kampot Pepper / Pimenta de Kampot
English: KAMPOT PEPPER There is no spice like pepper and there is no pepper like Kampot Pepper. Lush mountains, tropical sea, rich soil and a history of over seven hundred years of cultivation makes this pepper farming region in southern Cambodia a unique combination of terroir, microclimate and traditional know how. Pepper has been cultivated in Cambodia since the times of the Khmer Empire and traded over the centuries with sea merchants from as far as Europe. The production and trade of Kampot pepper peaked with the French colonialists in the 1930s and 1940’s. After a tumultuous period of near extinction in the 1970’s, during the brutal Khmer Rouge regime, Kampot pepper plantations slowly recovered in the 1990’s experiencing a revival in the early 2000’s. Today Kampot pepper has the recognition of a Protected Geographical Indication from the European Union. The Kampot Pepper Promotion Association’s Book of Specifications regulates production methods, farm plots, processes, hygiene and traceability and forbids, for example, the use of chemical fertilisers. Kampot Pepper is an organic and origin designated product highly …
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