Customs updates fruit access list, first African pineapple will be exported to China

Recently, the official website of the General Administration of Customs updated the "List of Fresh Fruit Types and Exporting Countries/Regions Obtaining my country's Inspection and Quarantine Access", adding pineapples from Benin, Africa. The General Administration of Customs approved the export of Benin pineapples to China in September last year. Information updated on January 19 shows that there are currently 226 orchards in Benin, as well as 2 packaging plants and 2 fumigation treatment plants that have obtained export codes to China. Benin began commercial cultivation of pineapples in the 1980s, and the output reached 222,000 tons in 2009. Now the pineapple planting area in Benin is more than 6,000 hectares, with an annual output of about 400,000 tons. Pineapples have become one of Benin's main export agricultural products. , this is also Benin’s first fruit product to gain access to the Chinese market. Currently, the pineapple industry accounts for 1.2% of Benin’s national ...