After months of negotiations with European plant protection authorities, Brussels has approved the changes introduced by the country to the certification system, which has allowed the market to reopen.
For this reason, the Minister of Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries of the Nation, Luis Basterra, together with the President of SENASA, Carlos Paz, and his Vice President, Carlos Milicevic, were present this Wednesday (12.05.2021) at the certification of the first shipment of lemons that will be exported to Holland, according to the official information.
In this regard, Basterra said: "Strengthening the institution made it possible for us to achieve this today, which comes from the negotiations that the Ministry and SENASA teams made to demonstrate to the European Union that We are guaranteeing the health of Argentine citrus products"This possibility of recovering the European market bodes well for us this year."
For his part, Carlos Paz highlighted the joint work with "the Ministry, the Foreign Ministry, the producing provinces and the producer entities to exchange with the European health agency the conditions to be able to return to the market this year." He stressed that The achievement is the result of a very thorough audit by the European Union in February, and the presentation of all the documentation and proposals to strengthen the service.
"We have reinforced our operations with personnel and vehicles; we have made agreements with INTA and the Obispo Colombres Agroindustrial Experimental Station in Tucumán, so that we have the greatest possible certainty that the process is under control. We minimize the possibility of black spot disease loads, which Europe considers a quarantine measure," he stressed.
The European Union is the most important export market for our citrus fruits, with Argentina historically being the main supplier of lemons and the fourth supplier of oranges in that bloc.
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