The Import Promotion Desk will offer a platform to more than 40 companies from nine countries at Fruit Logistica
The Import Promotion Desk (IPD), an initiative to promote imports in Germany, will showcase a number of companies and products from emerging and developing countries at Fruit Logistica in Berlin.
IPD forms a link between small and medium-sized enterprises in selected developing and emerging countries and European importers.
Avocados from Kenya, passion fruit from Ghana, limes from Colombia, sweetcorn from Morocco, ginger from Brazil, citrus from Egypt, pitahayas from Ecuador and mangoes from Senegal are some of the products that will be on display at the IPD stand.
Africa will be strongly represented, with Kenyan growers showcasing their Hass avocados, while a producer of sweetcorn, green beans and spring onions from Morocco will also be in Berlin as well as a berry grower from the country.
Egyptian companies will be exhibiting citrus, table grapes and pomegranates, while sweet potatoes, onions and garlic will also be on show.
An IPD company from Ghana has specialised in growing passion fruit – with both purple and yellow flesh – as well as papayas, while Senegalese companies produce flavoured Kent mangoes.
”The South American continent will also be represented at the IPD stand with Brazil, Ecuador, Colombia and Peru,” IPD stated.
”A Brazilian company – new to the IPD programme – will be bringing fresh ginger to Berlin. Limes and oranges as well as granadillas, passion fruit and gulupas are coming from Colombia.
”And producers of pineapples, mangoes and pitahaya from Ecuador and Peru will be on the IPD stand,” it added.
IPD is currently active in 21 countries: Brazil, Cambodia, Colombia, Côte d’Ivoire, Ecuador, Egypt, Ethiopia, Ghana, Indonesia, Kenya, Madagascar, Morocco, Nepal, Peru, Senegal, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Tanzania, Tunisia, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan.
