Essential oil lab provides growth market for local farmer produce
Publication date 18 August 2022 | 21:03 | ICT

Reaksmey Chhorpon dreamt a seemingly impossible dream. She wanted to become a scientist. Now, as the founder of HathKal Lab, she is using chemical engineering to turn high quality Cambodian crops into 11 kinds of pure essential oils.

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