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Author or Institution as Author
Department of Agricultural Research Services, Ministry of Agriculture, Malawi
Resource Type
Curated Content
Category
Best Practice
Date of Publication
Dec 01, 2022
Language
English
Description/Abstract

This video demonstrates a new cost effective and innovative approach of in-Country Research Teams to conduct a phytosanitary and other assessments of their produce, capture them on a video and send it to the potential market.  In turn, the potential buyers watches the video and make a recommendation and approves whether to open their market to the seller/producer or not. Consequently, the market players saved a lot of time and financial resources for a team of deligates was supposed to travel from the South Africa to Malawi. This Video resulted in the opening up of the South African Market to Malawian mangoes, Right now (since 2023), Malawi is exporting Mangoes to South Africa.

NPPO-Malawi compiled two videos of pre-harvest and post-harvest handling processes that were inspected at Malawi Mangoes Limited in Salama. The video shows how the client complied with the requirements for the export markets including South Africa. NPPO-Malawi conducted the field inspections in three stages as outlined on the Import Permit: 1) Flowering; 2) Fruiting and 3) Harvest and post-harvest stages. This is Part 1 of the videos.

Institution
Department of Agricultural Research Services, Ministry of Agriculture, Malawi
Citation

Ministry of Agriculture (2022). Mango Export Requirements and Assessments conducted by the NPPO Malawi. NPPO Malawi, The Director of Agricultural Research Services P.O. Box 30779 Lilongwe Malawi.  

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