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PHILIPPINES TO START EXPORTING FRESH MANGOES TO U.S. THIS WEEK.
MANILA, May 1 Asia Pulse - After more than 15 years of negotiations, the Philippines will finally be exporting fresh mangoes to the United States from the first week of May, thus penetrating the $220 million fresh mango trade in the US now dominated by Mexico.
In a briefing after a call by officials of the Mango Exporters Association on President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo in Malacaang this afternoon, Agriculture Undersecretary Ernesto Ordonez said the first shipment, consisting of from 200 to 400 boxes of mangoes grown in Guimaras, will be flown to Los Angeles, California.
US Department of Agriculture Attache Michael Woolsey also accompanied Ordonez and the country's top mango growers during their call on the President.
Ordonez said that the Philippines would not have any difficulty in competing with Mexican mangoes in the US market, adding that in fact, mangoes exported to the US from Mexico are called Manila mangoes.
"So, we think that we have an easy time there because in a sense Manila mango from Mexico has paved the way for the Philippines, super mango," ...
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Source: HighBeam Research, PHILIPPINES TO START EXPORTING FRESH MANGOES TO U.S. THIS WEEK.