Korean paprika exported to the Philippines by air for the first time

The Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs Quarantine Headquarters (Director Kim Jeong-hee) announced that it has made its first export 11 months after completing negotiations with the Philippines to relax export quarantine requirements for domestically produced paprika. On July 10, ‘Odae’, an agricultural corporation in Pyeongchang-gun, Gangwon-do, exported 360 kg (56 boxes) of paprika that passed export quarantine to Manila, Philippines. Domestic paprika is exported to Japan, Vietnam, and China, but this is the first export to the Philippines. When the paprika quarantine agreement was concluded with the Philippines in 2014, it could only be exported by ship cargo, but the Quarantine Headquarters has been steadily negotiating since 2022 and relaxed export quarantine requirements to allow export by air cargo in August 2023. This export will be carried out via air cargo in accordance with relaxed export quarantine requirements. In order to export paprika to the Philippines, export ...