Ethiopia is ready to send the second batch of avocado produce to other countries, Ethiopian Horticulture Producers and Exporters’ Association announced
Ethiopia has exported to the UK some 24 tons of high quality produce collected from smallholder farmers
More fresh refrigerated avocado produce will be shipped to other countries in the new Ethiopian year that begins on September 11.
Ethiopia is ready to send the second batch of avocado produce to other countries, Ethiopian Horticulture Producers and Exporters’ Association announced. Ethiopia has exported to the UK some 24 tons of high quality produce collected from smallholder farmers. More fresh
refrigerated avocado produce will be shipped to other countries in the new Ethiopian year that begins on September 11.
It is planning to export 70 tons of avocados on the second round to destinations including the Netherlands, UK, Belgium, Germany and other
Middle East countries. Ethiopia can harvest fruits twice in a season. That will help the country to establish strong markets abroad.
The Association is making the necessary logistics preparation to facilitate the availability of equipment such as refrigerated warehouses, containers, and vehicles. Poor logistics comes in the way for realizing the potential of the fruits and marketing it abroad. With this in view, the Ethiopian Logistics Transformation Office is building a new facility with the help of the Netherlands government in Modjo town, close to the capital Addis Ababa. The facility can store fruits to be shipped to Europe. Recently, Ethiopia shipped fresh products to Europe via a train route to Djibouti to be shipped to various destinations, as a pilot project. The pilot project, officials said, was a success and possibly the coming days more such shipments would take place.
