US market open to the Spanish Hass

  • Published on 30/01/2014 - Published by IMBERT Eric
  • FruiTrop n°218 , Page 12
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This is a sweet victory for the Spanish avocado industry, after years of procedures and studies demonstrating that the Spanish Hass was not hosting fruit flies. The decision, announced by the USDA in late December, takes effect at the beginning of January. Although the volumes aimed at this distant market should remain restricted (the USDA allows for fewer than 300 tonnes per year in its economic impact study), this makes a fine trophy for the Spanish avocado, which is a tribute to the professionalism of the producers and shippers of the Malaga region, from where most of the volumes aimed at the international market originate.

 

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