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Philippines to upgrade fruit packaging facilities

Zoom in font  Zoom out font Published: 2012-06-04  Origin: FBR
Core Tip: The Philippines agricultural department plans to upgrade the fruit packaging facilities in the country, to ensure that the produce meets export standards.
The department also will ensure fruit exports are thoroughly checked before being shipped overseas, reported Philippine Star.

Agricultural secretary Proceso Alcala said that the department has consulted exporters to find out which facilities have to be upgraded.

"It looks like the contamination (of exports) is coming from the packaging of small exporters so the best solution is for us to help them," Alcala added.

The agricultural department is providing around PHP500,000 ($11,476.3) to help small-scale operations. It is providing a total of PEP50m ($1.14m) for the project.

Recently, China has started inspecting all the shipments of fresh produce from the Philippines after scale insects were found in a shipment of Philippine bananas in March.

 
 
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