The memorandum with South Korea will boost Colombian agricultural exports

The memorandum of understanding between the agriculture ministries of the two countries is one of the six cooperation instruments signed in the framework of the state visit of Colombian President Iván Duque to South Korea. The agreement "will allow first to be able to exchange knowledge on sanitary and phytosanitary issues so that in this way we can advance faster in the admissibilitys that we are currently processing and be able to make new admissibilitys in parallel," according to Zea. For the minister, it is very important that the Colombian authorities know first-hand the analysis methods used by the South Korean health authority, the Animal and Plant Quarantine Agency (APQA). Especially on the agricultural issue, he insisted, since pork is right now one of those Colombian products pending to be admitted for export to South Korea, along with the Tahitian lime. "But we do not want to stop there, we want to seek the admissibility of bovine meat at the same time," added Zea ...