Passion fruit from Íntag, Ecuador, is exported to Europe

Nearly 9,000 kilograms of passion fruit from the Íntag valley, in Cotacachi, in northern Ecuador, have been exported in recent weeks to Europe, specifically to Spain. This is said in a statement from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), dated September 11, 2023. To be exported, the Ecuadorian passion fruit met the rigorous standards of the European market such as the Global GAP certification and the elimination of any trace of residue in its crops. The local producers of Family and Peasant Agriculture – AFC, who participated in the export of passion fruit to Spain, received training from the Andean Landscapes Project, which is executed by FAO and financed by the European Union. For this reason, producers adopted measures to mitigate the fusarium pest in the crop, applied new technologies and received technical assistance. The objective of the project is to place the Íntag passion fruit among the first places in exporting non-traditional fruits in the ...