Expo Mango 2009, a festival sponsored by the Mango Cluster with the support of the Ministry of Agriculture and the Dominican Agricultural Research Institute (IDAF), took place this last weekend in the southwestern province of Baní. It sounds like such a scrumptious idea that I wished I had known about this sooner.
Participants had the chance to taste, buy and get to know all the varieties of mango produced in the Dominican Republic. The mango, a native of India, was introduced with great success into the Caribbean, where its many cultivars (more than a thousand at last count) have become central to the region’s cultural life. It seems to me that a celebration of the mango was well overdue.
The event included a gastronomic festival, funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), as well as a business program, coordinated by the Dominican Center for Exports and Investments (CEI-RD). According to the president of the Mango Cluster, Rafael Leger, mango exports in 2008 exceeded US$4.6 million and new export markets are being found, including Japan, Scandinavia, Russia and Poland.
We are an exporter of tropical fruits for Japan.
Can you introduce some mango shippers/exporters to us?
The variety we are looking for is “Kent”.
Thank you.
By: ken hanawa on August 14, 2010
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Hello,
I am an import agent who is interested in importing mangoes on behalf of my clients. I would be most grateful if you can connect me to mango exporters. My base and market is United Kingdom.
By: Dave Mwila on May 22, 2011
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