South African off-season fruit and vegetable imports have grown enormously over the past 15 years

Published 2021년 12월 8일

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The Fresh Produce Importers' Association of South Africa (FPIA) was established in 2011 to manage, facilitate, and develop the country's fresh produce import sector. The association imports a variety of fresh produce, including stone fruit, kiwis, mangoes, limes, citrus, bananas, papayas, strawberries, avocados, garlic, prepackaged vegetables, and cucurbits from countries such as Spain, Bulgaria, the UK, Israel, Morocco, Greece, Italy, New Zealand, Mozambique, Egypt, Israel, and Zimbabwe. The FPIA has developed a system to identify potential sanitary and phytosanitary (SPS) issues at an early stage and has been cooperating with the Ministry of Agriculture to ensure the safe import of products from countries that may pose a risk to the South African fruit sector. The association is also working to import apples from Portugal and Germany, mangoes from India, Pakistan, and Malawi, citrus from China, and stone fruit from Egypt and Zimbabwe.

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The Fresh Produce Importers' Association, which is unique in South Africa, was established ten years ago to facilitate the increasing need for year-round availability of certain categories of fresh produce for the local market and retail sector. "As in many other developing countries, year-round availability of fresh fruit and vegetables has become the norm in South Africa. Consumers need a wide product range all year round, regardless of the season of the different products. This is no different in South Africa and the import of off-season fresh produce has grown enormously over the past 15 years, which is why the Fresh Produce Importers Association of South Africa (FPIA) was founded in 2011, with the aim of organizing, facilitating and developing the South -African fresh produce import sector," explains Marianna Theyse. Spanish peaches for the South African market imported by Freshgold “The import consists largely of fruit, such as stone fruit, which is imported from Spain, ...

Source: AGF