Japan reopened its market to Paraguayan stevia

Assumption, IP.- The Vice Minister of Financial Relations and Integration of the Nationwide Chancellery, Rigoberto Gauto, obtained this Tuesday in viewers the president of the American Stevia Federation (FAS), Juan Carlos Fischer. Alternative after they talked in regards to the reopening of the Japanese market to Paraguayan stevia.

After ending the listening to, Vice Minister Gauto reported at a press convention {that a} Paraguayan delegation made up of representatives of the Nationwide Chancellery, the Nationwide Service for High quality and Plant and Seed Well being (SENAVE) held conferences with the authorities of the Ministry of Agriculture , Forest and Fisheries of Japan (MAFF) event when the choice was made to reopen the marketplace for the Paraguayan product, after a number of years of closure.

In April, Japanese technicians will come to hold out the sanitary process for processing stevia, a preliminary step to granting the favorable course to open the Japanese market to nationwide manufacturing.

For his half, the President of the FAS acknowledged that the mission of the Japanese technicians in Paraguay is the following step, for the issuance of the opinion inside a interval of 35 to 40 days, which is able to grant the license to our nation for export.

The Japanese market will import all nationwide manufacturing. He estimates a median of 600 to 700 tons per 12 months, which might generate an revenue between 1 million and 1 million 500 thousand {dollars}.

He defined that the yield productiveness ranges between 1,500 to 2,500 tons per hectare, and that at present there are varieties that exceed 5,000 to six,000 kilos per hectare.

Lastly, Vice Minister Gauto acknowledged that they may use excessive assets in order that Paraguayan stevia might be exported to the European market.