Sri Lanka is famed as an exporter of premium quality spices, above all cinnamon and pepper, but also as a supplier of essential oils and extracts. Oils won from cardamoms, cloves, or the exotic Malabar tamarind, for example, are used in the manufacture of cosmetic and wellness products.

The lusciously verdant island in the Indian Ocean is also a source of nuts like chashwes as well as of dried exotic fruits such as jackfruit, papaya, and mango.

The most important plant in Sri Lanka, however, is the coconut. Annually, around 2.5 million tons of coconuts are harvested and 44,000 tons of coconut oil produced from a crop acreage of approximately 400,000 hectares. Producers in Sri Lanka are increasingly focussing their attention on the demands of the EU market, offering virgin coconut oil and coconut blossom sugar in organic quality. But Sri Lanka is also home to the sovereign among coconuts: the king coconut, a source of especially nutritious coconut water.

In 2018, as part of the country’s development agenda, the Sri Lankan government adopted a new concept for promoting export business in the shape of its National Export Strategy (NES). The island’s ecological agricultural production is largely geared towards exports. The agricultural sector is a key driver of sustainable economic development and a creator of jobs.
The European Union has granted concessions to Sri Lanka, cutting import duties on processed agricultural goods as part of its Generalised Scheme of Preferences (GSP+). This arrangement supports developing countries in the process of tapping further potential on the EU market and increasing sales there.

The IPD currently identifies reliable trade partners in Ghana whose products meet the quality criteria of the EU market.

OUR PRODUCT GROUPS FROM SRI LANKA

Natural ingredients for foods, cosmetics, and pharmaceuticals:

• Spices such as cinnamon, pepper, cardamom, curry leaves, vanilla, nutmeg, and mace etc.
• Essential oils and extracts, e.g. cinnamon, ginger, cloves, centella asiatica, garcinia cambogia
• Diverse coconut products such as virgin coconut oil, coconut blossom sugar, coconut butter, king coconut (Thembili), etc.
• Nuts such as cashew
• Dried fruits such as pineapple, jackfruit, mango, papaya etc.
• Tea, green and black varieties

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Bonn/Berlin // 04.10.2018

SIAL 2018: Product diversity from Ethiopia

 

Bonn/Berlin // 04.10.2018

SIAL 2018: Product diversity from Ethiopia

Import Promotion Desk presents specialities from emerging markets and developing countries at the international food exhibition

Bonn/Berlin (Germany), 4 October 2018 – With “Worldwide Sourcing for Europe” as its motto, the Import Promotion Desk (IPD) together with the “Centre for the Promotion of Imports from Developing Countries” (CBI), an import promotion programme from the Netherlands, will present regional producers from emerging markets and developing countries at SIAL. The exhibition, the leading food exhibition, will take place from 21 to 25 October 2018 in Paris.
26 exporters from Egypt, Ethiopia, Colombia, Kyrgyzstan, Nepal, Peru, Tunisia, and Mozambique will offer a wide product range of regional specialities. A special focus at the IPD exhibition stand will be on the IPD partner nation Ethiopia: teff and spices, beans and pulses, seeds and oilseed – the Ethiopian companies demonstrate the product diversity of this African country.

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Produktvielfalt aus Äthiopien auf der SIAL 2018

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Bonn // 25.07.2018

IPD intensifies activities for sustainable economic development

 

Bonn // 25.07.2018

IPD intensifies activities for sustainable economic development

German import promotion initiative is now active in 13 countries and 5 sectors

Bonn/Berlin, 25.07.2018 – Since 2012, the Import Promotion Desk (IPD) has assisted small-to-medium-sized enterprises in selected developing and emerging counties to ac-cess the European market. In its third project phase, the IPD expands activities to 13 partner countries and five sectors. The IPD supports export companies on the so-called "last mile"– it accompanies producers to the European market, arranges contacts with importers, thereby closing a strategic gap at the interface of development cooperation and foreign trade.

Press release: IPD intensifies activities for sustainable economic development

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Pressemeldung IPD intensiviert Aktiviäten

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