Horticulture: Seize export opportunity in China

Published 2023년 6월 11일

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The article highlights the opportunities for Zimbabwe to increase its horticulture exports to China, following the country's engagement and re-engagement drive. The Zimbabwe-China Business Forum saw significant interest from China's private sector in investing in local tourism, trade, and investment, with a focus on horticulture. Local farmers can benefit from the growing Chinese market for fresh produce, which has nearly doubled in the past five years. The article emphasizes the importance of packaging and infrastructure for successful exporting and suggests that bulky products like potatoes and sweet potatoes can be effectively exported via sea freight from the port of Beira in Mozambique.

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Source: Horticulture: Seize export opportunity in China | Sunday Mail (Opinion) PRESIDENT MNANGAGWA’S engagement and re-engagement drive has placed Zimbabwe at the heart of global supply chains. Trade Focus Allan Majuru Leading economies are increasingly warming up to doing business with Zimbabwe. For example, at the recently held Zimbabwe-China Business Forum, China’s private sector expressed huge interest in investing in local tourism, investment and trade. The forum — organised by ZimTrade, with support from the Zimbabwe Investment and Development Agency, and the Zimbabwe Tourism Authority — also gave local businesses an insight into some of the key export opportunities in China, including requirements that will make it easy to land products in the market. Among the many areas of export potential, the horticulture came out as a low-hanging fruit that can provide local businesses with easy access to the market. Zimbabwe is already growing some of the crops that are performing ...

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