Peru achieves access to the Philippines market for exporting Hass avocados

After sustained technical management work, the National Agrarian Health Service (Senasa) signed the Operative Work Plan, which establishes the procedures and phytosanitary requirements for the export of Peruvian Hass avocados to the Philippines, a market with over 110 million consumers. This agreement is the result of a bilateral cooperation process between Peru's Senasa and the Bureau of Plant Industry (BPI) of the Philippine Department of Agriculture, which culminated in the definition of the phytosanitary requirements for the entry of the Peruvian product, ensuring traceability and agrarian health throughout the export chain. "This new achievement reaffirms international confidence in Peru's phytosanitary system and opens opportunities for our Hass avocado producers, who maintain high health standards recognized in the main markets of the world," highlighted the head of the Ministry of Agrarian Development and Irrigation (Midagri), Vladimir Cuno Salcedo. According to the Work ...