A. Seminar outline :

Cambodia has a tradition of more than 700 years and a natural comparative advantage in pepper cultivation. Black pepper (Piper nigrum) is a climbing vine, and its fruit is usually dried and used as a spice and seasoning. It been used since antiquity for its flavour and as a medicine, and is the world's most traded spice. Cambodia has an excellent climate and soil conditions for pepper, and pepper production was mentioned as early as the 13th century. Especially during the French colonial times so-called “Kampot Pepper” (from the province of Kampot) developed a reputation for its special taste. Intensive production started in the early 20^thcentury, and at its height, production and exports of pepper may have been up to 8,000 tons per year. However, practically the entire pepper production in Cambodia came to an end during the period of the Khmer Rouge. Pepper production was only gradually re-established after the 1990s.

Under a financial support from Trade Development Support Program (TDSP) the Trade Promotion Department of the Ministry of Commerce setting up a Value Chain Information Units to conduct a research on Cambodian Potential products that was identifies by DTIS-2007 in order to produce policy paper for government and private sector getting to understand about tax, tariff, import-export conduction, market requirement, product, and constrain happen along then value chain of the sector. Recently, the VCIU just completed a research and producing a report, however, in order to build a report good enough, the VCIU team have been conducted a validation workshop to collect more relevant inputs from the stakeholders.

B. Topic :Validation Workshop on the Pepper Sector Profile in Cambodia.
C. Date : 20^th July, 2012
D. Venue: Kampong Cham Province ( 7 Makara Hotel)
E. Objective:

• To disseminate the research finding on Pepper Sector that was develop by the Value Chain Information team member of the Ministry of Commerce. The workshop also provides full range of relevant information concerning to the global market of Pepper, requirement of importing countries, targeted market of Cambodian’s Pepper especially urging the Cambodian entrepreneurs, producers, produce more Pepper for export promotion.
• To learn the case study of success exporting company in order to encourage the manufacturers, producers or exporters to benchmark from the successor to update their business for International market such as Japan, Korea, EU Market ..etc.
• Explain and mainstreaming the management of food safety & quality in the new global trade environment to export pepper products to make sure that the exporters have to go through systematic products testing that was recognized internationally.

A. Topic: Introduction on Diamond Grading

B. Date: June 03, 2010 at Naga World Hotel, Phnom Penh

C. Objective:

i). Introduce the specification of Gems and Jewelry and colors stone to the customers;

ii). Explain and coaching gems and stones the trader on how to monitoring and evaluation the products base on specific technical analysis be avoided selling the product with obscure standard.

D. Seminar outline:

The seminar occurred is coinciding to the outstanding of trade development on gems and jewelry product in Cambodia.

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A. Topic: Tourism Promotion Seminar along Coastal line

B. Date: December 26, 2009 at Kep City, Kep Province

C. Objective:

i). Promote new tourist spots especially coastal line in Cambodia in order to attract local and international tourist to visit the place that was not quite far from Phnom Penh;

ii). Promote human resources development in the field of tourism sector to get understanding the usefulness and benefit of tourist site;

iii). To disseminate the potential of tourist site in Cambodia in order to attract more tourist and tourism related investment.

D. Seminar Outline:

The seminar was join organized by the Ministry of Commerce and the Ministry of Tourism and local authority in order to promote human resource development and stimulating the service provider related to tourism sector working together (private sector and public sector) to restore and establish new tourist site in Cambodia in order to attract more tourist locally and internationally come to visit and invest on the tourism industry. Please down load seminar presentation.

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A. Topic: How to Manage the Products for Export Promotion

B. Date: Wednesday 17, December 2009 at Mondial Exhibition Center, Phnom Penh.

C. Objective:

i). To disseminate and provide full range of relevant information concerning to the global market requirement targeted to Cambodian entrepreneurs, producers, who produced potential products for export promotion;

ii). To introduce Cambodian’s export potential assessment to identify promising products and market by encouraging Cambodian producers, traders, manufacturers to change their ways not only export as raw material products but  to diversify the process and finish products to the new markets through trade facilitation scheme;

iii). Explain and mainstreaming the management of food safety & quality in the new global trade environment for all the export oriented products to make sure that the exporters have to go through systematic products testing that was recognized internationally;

iv). To learn the case study of success exporting company in order to encourage the manufacturers, producers or exporters to benchmark from the successor to update their business for market development.

D. Seminar outline:

A seminar entitle how to manage the products for export promotion was design in order to respond to the demand of the Cambodian traders, producers, manufactures, SMEs association or/and business communities who wish to see the  Cambodian’s Products moving around the markets both locally and internationally markets. The seminar also stimulated the producers and manufacturers are responsible on the production based by improving product quality, hygiene, designing, sanitation and labelling otherwise his / her product will not be possible to entering restriction markets exemplary such as Japanese market.

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A-Topic: The Strategy to Promote Top Ten Products for Export and Trade Matching

B- Dated: Wednesday 17, December 2008 at Mondial Exhibition Center, Phnom    Penh.

C- Objective:

i). To disseminate the existing varieties of products produced by the Cambodian’s producers with a reasonable quality and quantity and can be replaced the imported products.

ii). To attract the end users (Cambodian people) to consume local products instead of imported products in order to enable economic sustainability, create new jobs to Cambodian farmers or producers, income generation in order to reach to poverty reduction of the Cambodian people.

D. Seminar outline:

A seminar entitle the Strategy to Promote Top-Ten Products for Export promotion was organized by the Trade Promotion Department of the Ministry of Commerce and JETRO of Japan aiming to strengthening the capacity building of the Cambodian SMEs to produce a good quality products in respond to market demand. The seminar's theme have been mention and urging the producers and manufacturers focusing on improvement of products quality, standardization, labeling, branding, designing and especially improving on packaging in order to attract the customers.

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