Bringing organic actors together in the Middle East for over 20 years
The Middle East Organic & Natural Products Expo has been connecting organic actors for the past 21 years, including business-to-business importers, wholesalers, retailers and distributors. Tobias Eisenring, who manages the QFTP Program at FiBL Switzerland, underlines the importance for Ukrainian small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to participate in such international trade fairs to access new markets and strengthen their position as reliable suppliers of value-added products. The overall goal of QFTP is to promote sustainable trade and create more and better jobs by strengthening the business competitiveness and capacities of SMEs in the organic and dairy sectors.
Focus on cereal and dairy products
This year, five Ukrainian producers/exporters presented their organic products at the trade fair. Among them were cereal products such as amaranth flakes, amaranth seed flour, wheat flour and corn sticks, as well as dairy products, including drinking yoghurt, cheeses, sour cream and high oleic sunflower oil.
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Links
- organicinfo.ua: News article about the Expo
- minagro.gov.ua: Website of the Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine
- imp.export.gov.ua: Webpage "Organic Food" on the website "Entrepreneurship and Export Promotion Office" (Ukraine)
- qftp.org: Website of the Swiss-Ukrainian Program "Higher Value Added Trade from the Organic and Dairy Sector in Ukraine" (QFTP)
The National Stand of Ukraine at the international fair Middle East Organic & Natural Products Expo 2023 was organised by the State Institution "Entrepreneurship and Export Promotion Office" (Ukraine) within the framework of the Ukrainian national project Diia.Business under the patronage of the Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine with the support of:
- Switzerland through the State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO) within the framework of the Swiss-Ukrainian Program "Higher Value Added Trade from the Organic and Dairy Sector in Ukraine" (QFTP) implemented by the Research Institute of Organic Agriculture (FiBL, Switzerland) in partnership with SAFOSO AG (Switzerland);
- Western NIS Enterprise Fund (WNISEF);
- EU and the German Government within the framework of the EU4Business: SME Recovery, Competitiveness and Internationalisation program, implemented in Ukraine by the German Federal Company "Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit" (GIZ) GmbH GIZ Ukraine.