A NEW trade protocol between Zimbabwe and China for the export of citrus fruit is expected to boost local horticulture production through direct access to the huge Asian market.
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This comes as Zimbabwe has been actively working to add China as a major agriculture export market.
The trade protocol will broaden export destinations for Zimbabwean citrus and will remove the country’s over reliance on South Africa and Europe.
“The trade protocol will offer Zimbabwe a direct route of our citrus into China and not exporting to South Africa for them to re-export our citrus as theirs to China,” the Agriculture ministry said in a statement las
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