Postharvest Situation in Cambodia
O. Visal
Book of Abstract. APEC Symposium on Assuring Quality and Safety of Fresh Produce, August 1-3, 2005, Bangkok, Thailand. 76 page.
2005
บทคัดย่อ
Cambodia is the small developing country in Southeast Asia, located in the Southwest part of the Indochina peninsula with the total area of 181,035 sq.km. The feature of the country is the favorable natural resources for growing various kinds of crops. But the area of postharvest technology of the country needs for greater development such as infrastructure, post-production operation, postharvest system, and marketing.
The fundamental problems and concerns of the postharvest sector have related to postharvest losses, poor marketing systems, weak research and development capacity, and inadequacies in policies, infrastructure and information exchange. With these improvements the country can extend its local markets and exports potential by selling value-added agricultural products through postharvest processing, potential handling and storage methods for agricultural development and economic growth, rather than selling what it produced by traditional methods. This paper will deals with the postharvest situation of economically local markets and exports potential crops. Research development, extension education, training and collaborations with international institutions of postharvest technology should offer priorities for the development of postharvest system.