Tholen - During the Asia Fruit Logisica, Axel Hagelin, Sales and Marketing manager for Asia with the Argentine lemon export company San Miguel, remarked that the export season would probably face a sooner end than normal. Production has been adjusted after several year of oversupply. Industry has a strong demand due to higher international prices of lemon juice and oil. Risen industrialized products demand has lessened the amount of fresh fruit to be exported. We are expecting that volumes will be in tune to demand in the future.San Miguel ships 5 to 6% of its total export volume to Asian markets. As Argentina and India are in the process of establishing protocols, new opportunities may open up that will allow this share to grow even further. Presently, the traditional Asian destinations include China, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam, Indonesia and Japan. Some volume is also shipped to China from Uruguay.
Some countries have required Cold treatment on lemon shipments to offset fruit fly infestations. Argentinean technicians sustain that cold treatment is not necessary for lemon, because this particular fruit cannot hold the fruit fly. Several years of investigation has confirmed so. Experiments over a period of 4 years with forced insertion of fruit fly larvae in lemons by the experimental station ‘Obispo Colombres’ in Argentina has indicated that the larvae do not survive in lemons and fruit flies do not breed there, said Hagelin. The Argentinean government is working for obtaining Japanese and Chinese protocol agreements in this particular. Several important Asian markets will be far more promising to Argentine citrus exporters when protocol requirements were to be softened.
For more information, contact:
Axel HagelinSales & Marketing Manager AsiaTel: +5411 4315 6234
ahagelin@sa-sanmiguel.comwww.sa-sanmiguel.com
Publication date: 9/18/2007
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