South Korean paprika successfully exported to the Philippines for the first time

(Korea Agricultural News = Reporter Jeong Sae-ron) The Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs (Minister Song Mi-ryeong) and Korea Agro-Fisheries and Food Trade Corporation (President Kim Chun-jin) are commemorating the first successful export of Korean paprika to the Philippines in July this year and are intensively promoting Korean paprika to local consumers along with large distribution stores in the Philippines. This export performance was achieved by easing the quarantine conditions in August of last year after additional negotiations following the first quarantine agreement between the Korean and Philippine governments in 2014. Based on this, the global marketer of the corporation and the paprika export integration organization dispatched to the Philippines to diversify the K-food export market. KOPA succeeded after close cooperation from finding buyers to exporting and entering distribution stores. In particular, the decisive factor that led Filipino buyers to ...