• Support for setting up organic pineapple production at TROPICAUX

    • 06/05/2021
    • Posted by: Sandra Borma
    • Category: Guinea, News
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    COLEACP has been supporting the setup of organic pineapple production at the TROPICAUX company in Guinea. This activity has two objectives – to provide training and accompany TROPICAUX in the implementation of its pineapple plots according to the organic agriculture reference system; and to reinforce the capacities of a Guinean expert in pineapple production. There are several elements involved: diagnosis of the plots envisaged by the company; providing training for managers on the technical itinerary for organic pineapple; and working… +
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  • Training on traceability for FENACOPAB

    • 12/03/2021
    • Posted by: Sandra Borma
    • Category: Benin, News
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    Formation sur la traçabilité pour la FENACOPAB
    Staff of the National Federation of Village Pineapple Producers Cooperatives of Benin (FENACOPAB) will receive COLEACP training on traceability and good hygiene practices. On completion of this training, participants will be able to implement a traceability system that is adapted to the local context of FENACOPAB, and that conforms with GLOBALG.A.P. requirements. This support is carried out within the framework of COLEACP’s Fit For Market programme. FENACOPAB is the Beninese national umbrella organisation for pineapple producers’ cooperatives and agricultural service… +
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  • Dominican Republic – webinar 2 co-organised by COLEACP and JAD

    • 18/02/2021
    • Posted by: Sandra Borma
    • Category: Dominican Republic, News
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    In collaboration with the Dominican Agroenterprise Board (Junta Agroempresarial Dominicana, JAD), COLEACP is organising a series of webinars on market access for processed products in the pineapple, mango and avocado sectors. These are part of the CALIFRUP project “Quality enhancement for the development of MSMEs in the processed fruit value chain”, which aims to support the strategy of value chain development and, specifically, to strengthen the processed fruit value chain. The second webinar, on 17 February, focused on regulatory and… +
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  • Dominican Republic: JAD-COLEACP webinars

    • 09/02/2021
    • Posted by: Gaetan Dermien
    • Category: Avocados, Dominican Republic, Mangoes, Pineapples
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    In collaboration with the Dominican Agroenterprise Board (Junta Agroempresarial Dominicana, JAD), COLEACP is organising a series of webinars on market access for processed products in the pineapple, mango and avocado sectors. These are part of the CALIFRUP project “Quality enhancement for the development of MSMEs in the processed fruit value chain”, which aims to support the strategy of value chain development and, specifically, to strengthen the processed fruit value chain. The first webinar, on “The international market for processed products”,… +
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  • Field activities resume in Côte d’Ivoire

    • 10/11/2020
    • Posted by: Emmanuel Bourcelet
    • Category: Côte d'Ivoire, News, Pineapples
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    After a period when all COLEACP’s activities were organised remotely due to restrictions related to the COVID-19 pandemic, field activities in Côte d’Ivoire are now resuming. COLEACP is working with a pineapple cooperative towards their compliance with the Fair For Life standard. The COLEACP expert and the company’s managers have committed to complying with World Health Organization recommended health and safety measures during their meetings.… +
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  • 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
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    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,… +
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  • Virtual meeting between Sea-freight Pineapple Exporters of Ghana and COLEACP

    • 15/06/2020
    • Posted by: Sandra Borma
    • Category: Ghana, News, Pineapples
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    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.… +
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