The horticultural sector

The horticultural supply chain starts with small scale farmers, who represent 60 per cent of all horticultural production and sell their produce through intermediaries.

In particular, aims to encourage the empowerment of women in horticultural and agricultural programmes.

Worldwide exports of other commodities such as tropical fruits or horticultural products have also increased significantly.

The growth of the horticultural exports of Kenya was facilitated by the expansion of air freight.

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Concerns have also been expressed about very stringent MRLs recently applied in Japan on various imported horticultural products.

Recent regulations and private sector standards in the food sector present new challenges for developing country exporters of horticultural products.

Given the importance of the marketing arrangements in the successful expansion of horticultural exports, it is interesting to note the diversity of such arrangements.

The EurepGAP standard, for instance, is likely to become a very important international benchmark for ensuring food safety and consistently high quality of horticultural produce.

FAO will participate in the Nordic Women in Development Fund (WID) Umbrella Project for agricultural, horticultural and animal husbandry projects involving female farmers in Afghanistan.

In some other horticultural products, however, the gains have been moderate despite the rapid growth in import demand from Western Europe and the Near East.

While some commodity dependent countries have recently started to diversify into new agricultural and horticultural products, progress towards industrialization, especially in Africa, has been minimal.

HORTINET, the information service that caters to the needs of horticultural stakeholders in the Philippines, has recently also indicated its interest in joining the working group.

They do projects such as summer camps to rehabilitate glue and solvent sniffers renovation of reading rooms and schools and small business start ups and horticultural activities.

And the ultimate may be, but it doesn't apply to cereals, that we have entirely closed ecosystems the horticultural systems right at the top left hand corner.

The commodities which are being, and are most likely to be, exported are largely of the horticultural sector, fresh fruit and vegetables, fresh cut flowers, and fresh fish.

The particular challenges faced by Kenyan SMEs in the area of distribution of horticultural products are typical of the challenges and constraints that African developing countries face in exporting.

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To implement a project to assist developing countries in the development of national or subregional codes on good agricultural practices (GAP) for horticultural produce that can be benchmarked to EurepGAP.

Altogether, Kenya apos s exports of horticultural products (including flowers) have grown since the early 1970s by 2.8 per cent a year, to reach around US 100 million in 1988.

This was organized by UNCTAD with support from Australia, Israel, the UNCTAD GATT International Trade Centre (ITC) and UNDP and it focused on policy problems affecting horticultural products, tea and cotton in South and East Africa.

The system was functioning so well that in 2006 the conservancy created the Historic Harlem Parks initiative, providing horticultural and maintenance support and mentoring in Morningside Park, St. Nicholas Park, Jackie Robinson Park, and Marcus Garvey Park.

And by presenting a really strong economic case, they convinced the L.A. government that replacing that asphalt with trees and other greenery, that the schools themselves would save the system more on energy than they spend on horticultural infrastructure.

And by presenting a really strong economic case, they convinced the L.A. government that replacing that asphalt with trees and other greenery, that the schools themselves would save the system more on energy than they spend on horticultural infrastructure.

Other initiatives to monitor commodity markets include the development of Infoprix in Benin, a system to monitor 64 rural markets (including those for the 25 most important staple foods), and Fintrac in Kenya, to help 35,000 horticultural smallholders access the international market.

In an effort to diversify the economy, Guam has begun to develop fish farms.23 Horticultural development, aquaculture, small scale aquarium fish trading and pearl farming were highlighted as potential business opportunities at a conference on business opportunities in Guam, held in 2004 by the United States Department of the Interior, Office of Insular Affairs.24

The Gambia Is Good tourism project, sponsored by the United Kingdom's Department for International Development, was aimed at supporting local producers in the marketing of their products rural women were organizing to produce high quality horticultural products, which were sold by other women in the capital area and in some cases to hotels to enhance revenue.