Kampot Province : Salt fields

Cambodia’s coastal province of Kampot sees the potential of its salt fields as another tourist attraction. The Kampot Provincial Tourism Department shared the observation after observing an increase in tourism to the salt fields, which has prompted locals to set up food and beverage outlets, along with other tourism services to meet demand. He also outlined the provincial leadership’s vision to transform the salt fields into another agro-tourism area. Advantages include the salt fields’ location, which is close to the provincial capital, the beach And a tourist port that will operate in the future. With the increasing number of tourists, especially foreign tourists. All tourists like to understand the traditional salt production process. In addition, they often spend a little time participating in salt production activities with Cambodian farmers such as salting and salting, etc. The dry season is a good time for salt production because there is no rain to reduce the salinity of the sea water. On the other hand, the hot weather also makes the salt grow faster. Salt production can start from October to May. According to farmers. Kampot province has a total of 3,489 hectares of salt production fields, 560 salt storage facilities, which provide employment to 1,474 people. Salt farms in the province operate for 4 to 6 months a year, depending on the weather, and produce about 100,000 tons of salt per year.