What Is the Exporting Process for Indonesian Mangosteen?

The standard Export procedures to China 

• Fruit must come from registered plantation that have been registered with Barantan (Indonesia Quatantine) and GACC (China Quarantine Authority). Registration gardens are gardens that have implemented Standard Operating Procedures (SOP), Good Agricultural Practices (GAP) and Integrated Pest Management (IPM) and registered by the local and Regional Government authorities Directorate General of Horticulture, Ministry of Agriculture

• Fruit must be processed for export to China at the registration packaging house and by exporters that have registered with Barantan and GACC. A registered packing house is a packing house that has been registered by the Authority Central (OKKPP)/Regional Food Safety Competent (OKKPD) and has been verified Barantan's feasibility in exporting fruit to China is appropriate Export Protocol requirements

• The process that must be carried out at the registered packaging house, including sorting, grading and cleaning fruit, both with brushing or spraying with compressed air to meet the standard in China market

  Standard Export Protocol requirements:

  - not rotten and not cracked/broken,

  - free from all types of plant pest organisms (OPT) targeted by China, including fruit flies, mealybugs, ants, and mites,

  - free from soil, plant residues (roots, stems, twigs), weeds and dirt other.

• The packaging and labeling process must also be carried out at the registered packaging house and in accordance with the Export Protocol requirements regarding packaging and labels on the packaging

  - The fruit packaging must be new and clean.

  - the label on the packaging must include information in accordance with the Protocol requirements Exports, including garden registration numbers (salak fruit) and/or packaging houses which have been approved by GACC along with the address and name of the packing house

• Plant quarantine inspection for the purposes of issuing a Health Certificate Plants (Phytosanitary Certificate, PC) must be carried out by the Quarantine Official Plants in registered container houses that have been registered with Barantan and GACC.

• Plant quarantine checks are carried out to ensure all Export Protocol requirements are met, including:

  - inspection of delivered goods (minimum sampling of 2% of the total delivery goods) to ensure that the fruit to be sent is not rotten/not

  cracked, free from all types of target plant pest organisms (OPT) in China, including fruit flies, mealybugs, ants, and mites, and is free from

  soil, plant residues (roots, stems, twigs), weeds and other debris;

  - checking the suitability and traceability of fruit sources from existing gardens

  registered;

  - checking the effectiveness of fruit sorting, grading and cleaning activities as well

  packaging and storage of fruit ready for export according to Protocol requirements Export; And

  - checking the suitability of the packaging for use and the identity of the label on each packaging according to Export Protocol requirements

• Issuance of a Plant Health Certificate (Phytosanitary Certificate, PC) only can be carried out on consignments that have fulfilled all requirements the above export requirements.