Mexico returns to trade avocado to Costa Rica

EFE.- After seven years of interruption of the Mexican avocado trade, the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock (MAG) of Costa Rica reopened its market to this food, reported this Tuesday the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (Sader) of the Government of Mexico . With this, Mexico expands the options of producers, who currently send the fruit to 51 nations, including the United States, Canada, Honduras, Spain, the Netherlands, France, the United Kingdom, China, Japan and South Korea. In a statement, Sader considered that the reopening of the Costa Rican market represents an achievement for the Government of Mexico, which, together with the industry, defended the interests of farmers before the World Trade Organization (WTO) and "demonstrated that the avocado Mexican is healthy, safe and does not represent any risk for the plant health of the countries that import it”. Read: Costa Rica finally ends the ban on importing Mexican avocados He added that the National Service ...