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

Published 2024년 7월 10일

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The Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs Quarantine Headquarters in North Korea has made its first export of domestically produced paprika to the Philippines, 11 months after negotiations to relax export quarantine requirements. The export, which includes 360 kg of paprika, will be transported by air cargo. The Quarantine Headquarters has been negotiating these requirements since 2022, following the agreement made in 2014 that initially restricted export to ship cargo. The Philippines has specific export quarantine guidelines that must be followed, including registration of the export cultivation area and management of diseases and pests during cultivation. The Headquarters plans to continue negotiating new markets to export other agricultural products.

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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 ...

Source: Nongup