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Tropical Avocados from the Dominican Republic is the country’s first collective brand to market this agricultural product on the east coast of the United States, where this local crop already has a 10% share of the market, and exports to that area in 2019 amounted to USD $61,415,732.38.
read moreAfter a period of supporting electronic and mechanical engineering businesses to improve connectivity to the global supply chain, the Government Office, the Ministry of Planning and Investment and the US Agency for International Development (USAID) has officially launched the Linkages for Small and Medium Enterprises (LinkSME) with an aim to expand the scale of support for many other industries.
read moreUS Ambassador to Sri Lanka and the Maldives, Alaina B. Teplitz recently met dairy farmers benefiting from a Rs. 2.2 billion program ($14.1 million) – ‘Market-Oriented Dairy’. The project is estimated to increase milk production by 94 percent by 2022 and will help make Sri Lanka’s dairy production – and the livelihood of thousands of dairy farmers – more sustainable and profitable. “Farmers are the backbone of the economy and this…
read moreIESC’s USDA-funded Market-Oriented Dairy (MOD) program mentioned in the U.S. Embassy’s video introducing Ambassador Alaina Teplitz, who recently began her tenure as the U.S. Ambassador to Sri Lanka and Maldives. Ambassador Teplitz highlighted the program’s goals of creating jobs and increasing fresh milk production to feed Sri Lanka’s children.
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“The USAID-funded YouLead! project is administered by Volunteers for Economic Growth Alliance and implemented by International Executive Service Corps (IESC), an organisation that has worked with hundreds of private enterprises in Sri Lanka since 1965.”
read more“. . .The US Department of Agriculture supported Exporta Calidad Program is helping Dominican exporters understand the different requirements of the European market including box sizes, certifications, and quality standards. . .”
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