Agriculture & Food

West Lake Longjing Tea is full of fragrance, Qingyuan shiitake mushroom has a unique flavor, and Huangyan tangerine is sweet and delicious... Over the past few years, more and more Zhejiang agricultural products have found opportunities to enter the consumption list of foreigners.

On November 16, the cloud exchange activity of the 2022 Zhejiang Export Agricultural Products Online Fair (America Special Session) was held. More than 60 international trade import and export enterprises, including Zhejiang Tea Group Co., Ltd., Zhejiang Huiling Foreign Trade Co., Ltd., and Zhejiang Baixing Food Co., Ltd., have settled in the online exhibition hall and held online talks with more than 80 international purchasers mainly in the Americas. The exchange atmosphere is warm, and both parties have gained a lot.

"What is the current situation of agricultural products trade between Dominica and Zhejiang?" "What is the purchasing power of Dominica's agricultural products market?" "Is Dominica suitable for developing entrepot trade?" Facing the enthusiastic questions from Zhejiang enterprises, Liang Junwei, the executive vice president and secretary-general of Dominica China Chamber of Commerce, responded one by one and welcomed Zhejiang enterprises to enter the Dominican market with more high-quality agricultural products.

As a major province in international trade of agricultural products, Zhejiang has a wide range of agricultural industries, rich varieties, safe quality, and famous brands. There is a citrus can production area accounting for nearly half of the world's output, a birthplace of the world's artificially cultivated shiitake mushrooms, and the "Zhejiang Qingyuan Forest Mushroom Co cultivation System" has been recognized as an important global agricultural cultural heritage... These famous names will become the "golden card" to promote friendly cooperation and complementary advantages between Zhejiang and the American agricultural product markets.

"Qingyuan is the first county in China's ecological environment. It has four specialties, namely sweet orange pomelo, traditional Chinese medicine, wild tea and Chinese chestnut, as well as three geographical indication agricultural products, namely Qingyuan shiitake, Qingyuan sweet orange pomelo and Qingyuan gray tree flower. All kinds of agricultural specialties are popular with international consumers." Li Ying, deputy county head of Qingyuan County, Zhejiang Province, said that last year, the export volume of agricultural products in Qingyuan County was 64.9498 million US dollars, including 8.75 million US dollars exported to the Americas, accounting for 13.57% of the total export volume.

The Americas is one of the key regions for the joint construction of the "Belt and Road", and is also an important market for the import and export of Zhejiang's agricultural products. Last year, Zhejiang's international trade in agricultural products from the Americas totaled more than 53 billion yuan, including more than 23 billion yuan in exports and 30 billion yuan in imports, both accounting for about one-third of the province's total agricultural product imports and exports, exports and imports.

"We will take this exchange activity as an opportunity to make full use of the advantages of Zhejiang's high participation in international agricultural product exhibitions, the steady progress in the construction of high-quality development bases for international agricultural trade, the sound and perfect monitoring and early warning system for the import and export of agricultural products, and the continuous expansion of the international trade market for agricultural products. We will work together with our American friends to promote bilateral trade in agricultural products, so that the people of the Americas and the world can better understand and share Zhejiang High quality agricultural products. " Shen Suqin, deputy director of Zhejiang Provincial Department of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, said.