SEDA news and events
Trade can now commence under improved protocols for the export of Australian cherries, stonefruits, table grapes and citrus.
Exporting of some stonefruits, citrus, cherries and table grapes from Australia to China will now become easier and faster under a series of new protocols ratified today (12 January).
The finalisation of the protocols comes after proposed changes to the Manual of Importing Country Requirements (MICoR) were announced in November 2017. The ammendments included approval for different modes of transit for fresh fruit including air and seafreight, which had previously been excluded for certain varieties. Read more of this Asiafruit article.
ROBINVALE ward Swan Hill councillor John Katis says growers need to take their share of responsibility in the fight against fruit fly.
Cr Katis, a former grape grower, said Australian Table Grape Association (ATGA) president John Argiro’s call for all backyard fruit trees to be chopped down was the wrong approach.
He said too many growers were not doing their part when it came to disposing of unwanted fruit. Read more of this Sunraysia Daily article.
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US-based tax accounting firm Taxback - acting on behalf of individual clients from the US, Britain and Germany - lodged the challenge with the Queensland Federal Court on Monday.The company argues that the tax - announced by the Abbott government but implemented at the start of this year - contravenes non-discrimination clauses built into tax treaties Australia has signed with eight countries: Britain, the US, Germany, Finland, Chile, Japan, Norway and Turkey.The legal action seeks "declaratory relief" from the tax for all citizens of those eight nations - in effect rendering them exempt from the tax. Read more of this Good Fruit & Vegetables article....
Throughout December over 20,000 of the new plum trees from Ben Dor were planted, which are exclusive to Cutri Fruit. They will run counter seasonal to other forms of stone fruit, and could be on the market by 2020.
"We will be harvesting fruit when there is no other stone fruit on the Australian market," Marketing Manager Nicole Cutri said. "They are also a new category of super-sweet plums that we can offer to our customers. The new varieties will taste better than what we have on the market, the varieties are innovative in colour and flavour, not to mention the health benefits." Read more of this Fresh Plaza article.......
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