Getting Fruit to the World
Getting Fruit to the World. I’m Greg Martin with today’s Fruit Grower Report.
A very large chunk of the
FRYHOVER: The Washington Apple Commission along with several industry members attended Fruitlogistica in
He says unfortunately not everyone around the world has the chance to try our fruit.
FRYHOVER: In addition there are several shippers who attend and use our booth as a meeting point to meet with their existing customers and look to make new relationships with new customers in certain regions of the world. It’s well attended from the European side as well as the Indian importers, Russian importers and then fragments of several other places as well.
Expenses for trips like these are built into federal programs according to Fryhover.
FRYHOVER: Fruitlogistica is what we call a mappable expense. It is through the Market Access Program so in fact most – probably 85 or 90% of the money that is spent actually comes from the federal government.
That’s today’s Fruit Grower Report. I’m Greg Martin on the Northwest Ag Information Network.