The lifting of barriers to access new markets is a constant. Now there are agricultural products with advanced processes for export to certain countries; citrus fruits, blueberries and aguaymanto stand out among them.
The lifting of barriers to access new markets is a constant. Now there are agricultural products with advanced processes for export to certain countries; citrus fruits, blueberries and aguaymanto stand out among them. A Peruvian man.
How is the task progressing in order to lift restrictions so that our agricultural and other products can enter new markets?
–The access of a vegetable product to a new market can be a relatively simple process, while, for another, a very long one. Its complexity depends on the level of phytosanitary risk that the product represents for the country to which it is intended to export.
Unfortunately, the efforts to specify the access of products such as fresh pomegranate fruit to China and avocado [propagation material] to Nicaragua were affected by this pandemic, since the visits of technical missions of the phytosanitary authority of those countries had to be postponed.
However, for the start of blueberry exports to Taiwan, which was also subject to a technical visit to Peru, it was achieved, with the support of the Taipei commercial office in Lima, that Senasa had a virtual meeting with the authority of that economy.
At that time, it was possible to delegate us the inspections of the places of production and packing houses to be able to start, this season, the exports of blueberries to this new market.
- What are the products with the greatest opportunity to access new places?
–There is a list of nine products with a very advanced process of technical negotiations between Senasa and its counterparts. We hope that within the next 12 months access to new markets for these products can be specified.
These are citrus fruits, fresh fruit (Argentina, Uruguay, India), blueberry, fresh fruit (India, Malaysia), aguaymanto, fresh fruit (United States) and granadilla, fresh fruit (Uruguay).
Also included are avocado, fresh fruit (Malaysia), waxflower, cut flower (Brazil and Colombia), grain quinoa (Colombia) and prickly pear, fresh fruit (Brazil).
- Will the tasks be complicated to lift restrictions so that our products can enter new markets in a post-coronavirus stage?
-No. On the contrary, in a post-coronavirus stage, with the lifting of border closures, visits at origin will be allowed by the authority of the destination country.
-No. On the contrary, in a post-coronavirus stage, with the lifting of border closures, visits at origin will be allowed by the authority of the destination country.
–Are alliances promoted with entities similar to Senasa in other countries to facilitate or expedite the lifting of sanitary restrictions?
–For phytosanitary access to new markets, Senasa manages coordination with its counterparts in Argentina, Chile and the United States, as part of the good institutional relations it maintains.
Por medio de los gabinetes binacionales hay coordinaciones con algunos países de la región como Ecuador, Colombia y Bolivia.
–How does the private sector contribute to the tasks to open new markets?
–The existence of an export product union facilitates the process of opening new markets.
Their participation is decisive in the elaboration of the crop and post-harvest management, as well as in the financing of the expenses that the visits in origin of the technical missions of the authority of the country to be exported imply, which is part of this process of opening markets, as well as conducting studies to find better access conditions for export products.
- Are the expectations for the second half of the year positive?
- We hope to start the export of table grapes to Argentina as a new market, whose phytosanitary requirements have already been agreed by Senasa with the Argentine authority.
Minimize risks
- Is it expected that in this new post-coronavirus environment, countries will establish new requirements to access their markets and that this could affect the work carried out by Senasa in relation to our agricultural or other products?
–There is currently no scientific evidence to show that plants are a vehicle for transmission of covid-19.
In the document 'Covid-19 and food safety: a guide for food companies', published by the WHO, it is stated that it is unlikely to be transmitted through food, by its very nature, since this type of virus needs of a human or animal host to multiply. Therefore, it is not an element associated with the phytosanitary requirements of a plant product.
However, an effective system for the management of food safety is already in place, in order to minimize the risk of contamination of the packaging when handling the product for marketing.
Data
• The Ministry of Agriculture and Irrigation (Minagri), through Senasa, plans to serve more than 1,600 seed producers from the Lambayeque, Puno and Cusco regions.
• This help consists of the registration, authorization and quality certification of the seeds, in order to make our country an important supplier of these products in the national and international market.
• Until August of this year, 1,603 producers are registered in the Register of Seed Producers, for whom this crop is their main livelihood, as it allows them to obtain better economic income and in the same way offer products that guarantee national food security.
Fuente: https://andina.pe/agencia/noticia-peru-acelerara-acceso-productos-a-nuevos-mercados-internacionales-821043.aspx
