The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) will organize a B2B meeting for 12 Moroccan and Egyptian companies who want to export their agricultural products to Uzbekistan on May 20-22, agricultural data analytics platform “East Fruit” announced on Thursday.
The FAO/EBRD Team will organize B2B meetings with leading importers and supermarket chain representatives from Uzbekistan and, possibly, Kazakhstan, as well as provide participants with a detailed professional market overview and a study tour to produce trading facilities and a wholesale market near Tashkent.
The Project will cover the expenses of the training, event planning, B2B meeting facilities, and a research tour, with participants paying their own travel and housing costs.
Twelve firms from Egypt and Morocco will be chosen to participate in the mission based on sent applications.
Central Asia is currently one of the world’s rapidly growing areas in terms of both economy and population, although it is occasionally overlooked by commodity merchants. The region, which has a population comparable to Germany and a territory bigger than India, has more than quadrupled its imports of fresh oranges in the last five years.
Uzbekistan is the world’s top importer of ware potatoes; and given its population growth, numerous new prospects are arising for the supply of mandarins, berries, palm dates, avocadoes, mangoes….
Kazakhstan is the greatest net importer of fruits and vegetables, with the highest per capita income among the former Soviet countries.