• Suriname: Capacity building bears fruit

    • 26/04/2021
    • Posted by: Gaetan Dermien
    • Category: Caribbean, News, Suriname
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    Ministry extension staff (group 2) trained in the COLEACP Field Training Workshop method Training-of-trainers on safe use of pesticides, crop protection and Field Training Workshops for extension workers and researchers of MAAHF Suriname In Suriname, the primary support to famers is provided through the extension services of the Agriculture sub-directorate of the Ministry of Agriculture, Animal Husbandry and Fisheries (MAAHF). A need was identified for Ministry extension staff to receiving training in COLEACP’s Field Training Workshop method to upgrade their… +
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  • Developing Good Practice Guides

    • 17/12/2020
    • Posted by: Gaetan Dermien
    • Category: Benin, Guinea, Kenya, Togo, Uganda, Uncategorized
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    During 2021 COLEACP will be providing a team of expert consultants to support national/regional initiatives to develop Good Practice Guides for horticultural value chains. A Good Practice Guide is intended to help all the different actors working in a particular horticultural sector to produce their crops and products under the best sanitary and phytosanitary (SPS) conditions. The Guides will harmonise specifications with international SPS standards and the adoption of Good Agricultural Practices (GAP), Good Plant Protection Practices (GPP) and Good… +
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  • COLEACP’s “Guides to Good Practice” development

    • 24/09/2020
    • Posted by: Sandra Borma
    • Category: Kenya, News, Uganda
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    COLEACP’s Fit For Market programme is providing training to local experts in developing horticultural sector Good Practice Guides with value chain stakeholders, to support compliance with SPS standards. Local experts are benefiting from a three-part training course to master the many and varied hard and soft skills that they will need. Following on from successful completion of online training (Phase 1), yesterday we held the inception meeting for Phase 2 – training will begin next week to strengthen the experts’… +
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  • Important information on EU MRL changes

    • 11/08/2020
    • Posted by: Gaetan Dermien
    • Category: Uncategorized
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    This news provides updates on recent changes to EU Maximum Residue Limits (MRLs) for plant protection products (PPPs). Where an MRL has been lowered, it is important for any grower using the PPP to make any necessary adjustments in good time to ensure continued compliance with EU regulations. This may mean adapting production practices (GAP) or using alternative control methods. It also includes a complete list of the MRL changes introduced so far in 2020, and changes applicable in 2021.… +
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