Kampot sea salt

[3] Salt production has a long history in the region, but the industry grew rapidly in the 1940s and 1950s.

During the Khmer Rouge and the subsequent Cambodian Civil War salt production was nationalized.

In 1986, a group of Kampot residents were granted 50 hectares of land by the state and given permission to start salt production as private entrepreneurs.

[8] In 2017, an export contract between local producer Confirel Co Ltd and French company Le Guerandais was signed for 20 tonnes of unprocessed raw Kampot sea salt for a price of 58 USD per tonne, marking the first-ever export contract for a Kampot sea salt producer.

[10] In the late 2010s, the Cambodian salt producers were reporting that the changing weather patterns and rising sea level caused by global warming were negatively affecting the Kampot salt production.