Pedro Pablo Kuczynski, PPK, President of Peru: “I told a Chilean blueberry producer: We are going to beat you in China with blueberries.”
The Peruvian President told Colombian television that on his previous trip to China he did it together with the head of the National Agricultural Health Service, Senasa, and on that occasion, the president recalls, they were told that "they will approve the entry of the Peruvian blueberries ".
The President of Peru, Pedro Pablo Kuczinski visited New York on the occasion of the UN assembly, although his interest in this visit was in the membership of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, OECD, and in this regard he stated that his The government is doing everything possible for Peru to join the select group of countries that make up the OECD and for this it said that it is necessary to promote formalization and exports. "Colombia is ahead of us, but we are going to accelerate. Within the measures, we are asking that the Congress give us faculties for formalization, which is what we still lack to belong to the OECD ", said to channel N of Colombian television.
It must be pointed out that, if Colombia were to join the OECD, Peru would be the only country in the Pacific Alliance outside the OECD.
Regarding the promotion of agrofrutícolas exports declared that "In China we have grape red globe, now we are going to have blueberries". The President said that in his previous trip to China he did it together with the head of the National Service of Agricultural Health, Senasa, and on that occasion, recalls the president, they were told that "They will approve the entry of Peruvian blueberries".
As an anecdote, PPK commented that, at the conference of the National Council of Foreign Relations, in New York, there was a producer of blueberries from Chile and then he said: "I want to tell you bad news for you and good news for us. We will win you in China with the blueberries ".
Source: Blueberrieschile.cl - Blueberriesconsulting.com