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Palm sugar (Skor Thnot) production season
A Cambodian man climbs up a palm tree for collecting palm juice at Lar Peang village, Kampong Chhnang province, about 50 kilometers (31 miles) north of Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Tuesday, Jan. 13, 2009. Traditionally, some rural people spend time to collect the palm juice to produce palm sugar to earn extra income after the rice harvested season. (AP Photo/Heng Sinith)
A Cambodian man sits on the top of a palm tree as he collects palm juice at Lar Peang village, Kampong Chhnang province, about 50 kilometers (31 miles) north of Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Tuesday, Jan. 13, 2009. Traditionally, some rural people spend time to collect the palm juice to produce palm sugar to earn extra income after the rice harvested season. (AP Photo/Heng Sinith)
A Cambodian baby girl helps her mother make a fire to produce palm sugar from palm juice at Lar Peang village, Kampong Chhnang province, about 50 kilometers (31 miles) north of Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Tuesday, Jan. 13, 2009. Traditionally, some rural people spend time to collect the palm juice to produce palm sugar to earn extra income after the rice harvested season. (AP Photo/Heng Sinith)
A Cambodian woman stirs palm sugar in a pan as her daughter eats a little at Lar Peang village, Kampong Chhnang province, about 50 kilometers (31 miles) north of Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Tuesday, Jan. 13, 2009. Traditionally, some rural people spend time to collect the palm juice to produce palm sugar to earn extra income after the rice harvested season. (AP Photo/Heng Sinith)
Cambodian men weigh palm sugar before selling to buyer at Lar Peang village, Kampong Chhnang province, about 50 kilometers (31 miles) north of Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Tuesday, Jan. 13, 2009. Traditionally, some rural people spend time to collect the palm juice to produce palm sugar to earn extra income after the rice harvested season. (AP Photo/Heng Sinith)
A Cambodian man climbs up a palm tree for collecting palm juice at Lar Peang village, Kampong Chhnang province, about 50 kilometers (31 miles) north of Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Tuesday, Jan. 13, 2009. Traditionally, some rural people spend time to collect the palm juice to produce palm sugar to earn extra income after the rice harvested season. (AP Photo/Heng Sinith)
A Cambodian man sits on the top of a palm tree as he collects palm juice at Lar Peang village, Kampong Chhnang province, about 50 kilometers (31 miles) north of Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Tuesday, Jan. 13, 2009. Traditionally, some rural people spend time to collect the palm juice to produce palm sugar to earn extra income after the rice harvested season. (AP Photo/Heng Sinith)
A Cambodian baby girl helps her mother make a fire to produce palm sugar from palm juice at Lar Peang village, Kampong Chhnang province, about 50 kilometers (31 miles) north of Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Tuesday, Jan. 13, 2009. Traditionally, some rural people spend time to collect the palm juice to produce palm sugar to earn extra income after the rice harvested season. (AP Photo/Heng Sinith)
A Cambodian woman stirs palm sugar in a pan as her daughter eats a little at Lar Peang village, Kampong Chhnang province, about 50 kilometers (31 miles) north of Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Tuesday, Jan. 13, 2009. Traditionally, some rural people spend time to collect the palm juice to produce palm sugar to earn extra income after the rice harvested season. (AP Photo/Heng Sinith)
Cambodian men weigh palm sugar before selling to buyer at Lar Peang village, Kampong Chhnang province, about 50 kilometers (31 miles) north of Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Tuesday, Jan. 13, 2009. Traditionally, some rural people spend time to collect the palm juice to produce palm sugar to earn extra income after the rice harvested season. (AP Photo/Heng Sinith)
15 comments:
Great stuff, all natural!
Organic.
cambodia has lots and lots of palm sugar. i hope this palm sugar niche can be expand into a conglomerate palm juice drink industry or something along that line in cambodia. i mean, make it safer to drink the palm juice in a bottle or something. where can i go to buy the palm juice drink in a bottle made in cambodia and sold in cambodia or else where as well? thank you.
Palm Juice and Palm Sugar should be protected, as the Khmer product for international export.
This production is one of the main sources of income for Khmer peasants besides farming. But not as clean to the world standard as it has no food inspection before it’s being put for sale in the market.
I love to drink and eat it when I visited the Kingdom. This thing is pure and cleans enough for the local people to consume.
Thanks for distributing the pictures.
Agree with 2:07AM. It takes hard effort to grow them and many years to mature before they can be useful for farmers. I can’t understand the gov’t why they failed to protect the forest and other natural resources that already there for them. It only takes seconds to destroy, but many years to earn it.
MORE AND MORE KHMER FASRMERS NOW CUT THEIR PALM TREES AND SELL TO VIETNAM AND THE VIET MAKE THEM INTO VARIOUS PRODUCTS AND SELL THEM BACK TO KHMER AT MUCH HIGHER PRICES.
ABOUT TIME THEY MAKE CUTTING DOWN PALM TREES ILLEGAL, BUT AGAIN HOW CAN YUON PUPPETS HAVE ANY BRAIN FOR KHMER INTERESTS ?
i think when gov't and some people cut down the palm trees, which is a khmer identity, perhaps, second only to ankor wat and other ancient khmer monuments, they failed to understand the importance or identity that these things attached to cambodia. i think some people of cambodia should be educated to understand the importance of maintaining or preserving some of the world rarest and unique ecology and identity of the khmer nation for millenium already. everyone can help to make the difference by talking and educating others about them. thank you.
9:20AM: I go along with you. Yuoun know that they don’t have this type of trees in their country. When they cultivated land to be farmed, they cut the trees down and turned the territory to their own. This is the way Yuoun robberies have been doing. The puppet regime knows that well but decided to turn a blind eye on it. They don’t dare defense the country, but give it away to Yuoun. What a shamed on the coward.
i love the khmer palm trees. i think they are exotic and beautiful, and, of course, very useful to the khmer people for ages.
There is actually a young Khmer lady who tried to preserve the palm trees. I saw her on youtube. It make me appreciate what palm trees symbol to cambodia. You can see it on the link below it is interesting.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jEHruM2WtU&feature=related
thanks to a young lady in long beach california...who do her best to try preserve palm tree in cambodia....i just see it on youtube...good job.
Oh plzzzz, don't do us any favor. The damn palm tree grows like wheat here.
3:44PM,
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Just seen the said video. It's very genuine and moving. Yes the trees have come to symbolise the fate of the Khmer people and this has been so probably since the dawn of Khmer civilisation.
If Khmers outside and inside of Cambodia feel a special attachment to the trees it is probably no accident given the role they perform in the cultivation of Khmer life and culture.
I don't mean to turn something like this into a political banner but Khmer people often compare the palm trees to themselves while they liken their Vietnamese neigbours to a bamboo grove. Chop down a palm tree and it will disappear for ever; clear bamboo plants and they will re-emerge and multiply in ever greater numbers.
This is a metaphor, of course. Yet, no one can deny the difference in terms of their respective breeding characteristics or organic nature (I'm refering to the trees here).
A palm tree is born of a single seed - this can be either male or female - and farmers can easily choose the exact location for it to grow into maturity. In contrast, bamboos grow in clusters and tend to expand mercilessly but gradually (almost unoticed) over time at the expense of surrounding vegetation.
In a village not far from PP, my own late grandfather used to complain about a well to do landowner whose garden farmland happened to border his over the latter's bamboo grove initially planted along the boundary of the two plots of land. Over the years, the grove expanded into and claimed more and more of my grandfather's land, and while he took some comfort in chopping off the part of the outward bamboo that were within his side of the plot, he could do little to curb the expansion of the grove itself whose tight clusters of trunks and roots armed with thorns are often formidable and do not lend themselves easily to being dislodged!
My thanks to that young lady for her motivation and effort. If only our politicians and leaders reflect her spirit and example . . .
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