UFVEPA presents its new five-year strategic plan
- 16/12/2020
- Posted by: Sandra Borma
- Category: News, Uganda
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The Uganda Fruits and Vegetables Exporters and Producers Association (UFVEPA) is the largest association in Uganda’s horticultural sector, representing 50+ export companies and producer group members. For UFVEPA, this strategic planning exercise, supported by COLEACP, came just at the right time, at the end of the former strategic plan (2015-2020) and when exporters and producers are grappling with the effects of the COVID-19 virus. With the uncertainties posed by the pandemic, a clear strategic roadmap over the next five years… +Group training on “Coconut cultivation in Côte d’Ivoire”.
- 16/12/2020
- Posted by: Sandra Borma
- Category: Côte d'Ivoire, News
As part of COLEACP’s Fit For Market programme, a group training session began Tuesday in Abidjan for coconut producing and exporting companies on the theme of “CULTIVATION OF COCOT FARMERS ON CÔTE D’IVOIRE”. This training aims to strengthen the knowledge and skills of production managers on good production and post-harvest practices of coconut cultivation. We wish an excellent training to our participants and thank our experts again.… +The key to Kenya’s successful avocado season
- 13/11/2020
- Posted by: Sandra Borma
- Category: Kenya, News
The Fresh Produce Exporters Association of Kenya (FPEAK) and Fresh Produce Consortium Kenya (FPC Kenya) issued a press statement on the avocado market on 11 November. According to FPEAK and FPC Kenya, up to the end of October 2020 Kenya exported 68,000 tons of avocados, valued at Ksh14 billion (about US$128 million), a record-high for the Kenyan subsector. The Avocado Society of Kenya reports that demand for avocados has risen both locally and internationally, with demand for fruits and fresh… +COLEACP and SPEG: awareness sessions on use of ethephon for pineapples exported to the EU
- 02/11/2020
- Posted by: Sandra Borma
- Category: Africa, Ghana
COLEACP and SPEG (Sea-Freight Pineapple Exporters of Ghana) are collaborating to organise awareness sessions on the appropriate use of ethephon for the export of pineapples to the EU. The first of two sessions took place on the 30th October in Pokrom region, with around 30 producers. Participants included conventional pineapples producers/cooperatives supplying third-party companies exporting to the EU, or exporting themselves to the EU. The session included field and packhouse observation of samples of sprayed fruits reserved from previous exports,… +FRESH SALONE, RESUMPTION OF EXPORTS TO BRUSSELS
- 10/10/2020
- Posted by: Gaetan Dermien
- Category: Sierra Leone
Fresh Salone – a Sierra Leonean fruit and vegetable production and export company, and COLEACP partner – has made its first shipment of habaneros and other ethnic vegetables (African eggplant, okra, leafy vegetables) to Brussels since the new European Directives came into force and flights were resumed post-COVID-19. This success follows several COLEACP Fit For Market programme activities in recent months, including digital training for the private sector on identification and management of false codling moth (FCM) and whitefly; and… +Virtual meeting between Sea-freight Pineapple Exporters of Ghana and COLEACP
- 15/06/2020
- Posted by: Sandra Borma
- Category: Ghana, News, Pineapples
M. Stephen Mintah, General Manager of Sea-freight Pineapple Exporters of Ghana (SPEG) and Chairman of COLEACP, attended a virtual meeting with COLEACP’s team as part of COLEACP’s COVID-19 measures to ensure market access and food security activities.… +What do ACP producers and exporters need most urgently? First survey results
- 24/04/2020
- Posted by: Gaetan Dermien
- Category: Africa, Caribbean, News, Pacific
Through an online survey, COLEACP has been asking what support is most urgently needed by the ACP fruit and vegetable sector during the current crisis. Preliminary results from 87 contributors are analysed below. Respondents were asked to prioritise the three most urgent areas where support is needed. Access to finance was clearly regarded as the most urgent area (77.0% of respondents placed this in their top three issues), followed by hygiene and food safety practices (69.0%). Support for storage/processing, logistics… +West African Mango Campaign 2020 has begun
- 17/04/2020
- Posted by: Gaetan Dermien
- Category: Burkina Faso, Côte d'Ivoire, Mali, Mangoes, News, Senegal
SIIM, a key West African mango producer and exporter, has announced the start of the 2020 campaign. The first mangoes, packaged under the Dibra brand from its stations in Burkina Faso, Côte d’Ivoire, Mali and Senegal, should arrive by the end of this week. In view of the coronavirus crisis, strict sanitary measures have been taken by the states of these countries not only to protect the population, but also to avoid the spread of the virus. Schools have been… +Training Needs Assessment in Nanyuki
- 10/04/2020
- Posted by: Sandra Borma
- Category: Kenya, News
Earlier in March, prior to the COVID-19 lockdown, management of Kenya Horticultural Exporters (1977) participated in a training session on Training Needs Assessment in Nanyuki, as part of the process to set up an improved internal training unit.… +Fresh Produce Exporters Association of Kenya at Fruit Logistica 2020 in Berlin
- 07/02/2020
- Posted by: Gaetan Dermien
- Category: Germany, Kenya, News, Tanzania
Fruit Logistica 2020 – Berlin. Fresh Produce Exporters Association of Kenya (FPEAK), represented by its Chairman M. Apollo Owuor met with the Tanzanian Horticultural Association (TAHA), to discuss collaboration and regional strategies.… +