Chilean dried plum gains entry to India

A few months ago, on the 10th. EXPO Dried Plums, Pedro Pablo Díaz, president of Chileprunes, had emphasized that one of the great strategic objectives of the sector was to export to the giant market of India. After arduous public-private work, this objective finally sees the light of day and becomes official: tender dehydrated plums will be able to enter that country, a market of more than 1,400 million inhabitants. This is formalized after the letter that the Department of Agriculture and Farmers' Welfare of India (DA&FW) sent to the Directorate of Plant Protection, Quarantine and Storage of that country (Directorate Of Plant Protection, Quarantine & Storage or DPPQ&S) informing that consider tenderized plums from Chile as a processed item and therefore do not require plant quarantine authorization (no phytosanitary certificate required). Then the Chilean SAG was formally notified through an official document and only this Monday, August 17, were the official documents issued by ...