Chilean dried plums manage to enter the Indian market

Dried plums from Chile will be able to be consumed by millions of people in India thanks to the joint work between the public and private sectors that made it possible to manage their entry into this market, by being exempt from the "Plant Quarantine Clearance". That is, tenderized dehydrated plums from Chile are considered a processed item and therefore do not require plant quarantine authorization to enter the market. This was a coordinated public-private work that lasted several years between the commercial office of ProChile in India, the agricultural department of Chile in India; the Agricultural and Livestock Service (SAG); Odepa of the Ministry of Agriculture, Chileprunes (Chilean Association of Processors and Exporters of Dried Prunes) and SOFOFA. For years, attempts have been made to obtain this lifting of the quarantine – where the health authority had to be shown the safety of national prunes – with a key moment being the delegation to India coordinated by ProChile, ...