According to the Dominican Agribusiness Board (JAD) and the Center for Export and Investment of the Dominican Republic (CEI-RD), 200 Dominican companies will exhibit their products at the 2017 Agroalimentaria Fair.
The activity will take place from May 18 to the 20 at the Hotel Jaragua, and expectations are that some 170 buyers from over 40 countries and 200 exporting companies of the country will participate in the event.
The fair is also expected to be the region's most important business platform for the agro-industrial industry's international trade.
The CEO of the JAD, Osmar Benetez, said "the 2017 Agroalimentaria Fair will be an opportunity to have direct contact with hundreds of Dominican producers who are equipped for export and who will exhibit the widest variety of fresh fruits and vegetables, as well as processed foods, cigarettes, and drinks."
Benitez was accompanied by Henry Molina, executive director of CEI-RD, and George Mansfield, the chairman of the fair's organizing committee. Benitez said that producers and exporters, along with local and multinational companies in the sectors of food, tobacco, and beverage, would gather in one place for three days to present the best Dominican products to the world.
Meanwhile, Henry Molina said that "the team that coordinates the negotiation rounds expects more than 3,000 business meetings between buyers and exporters, which could generate an export business of nearly 350 million dollars."
The President of the Organizing Committee of the 2017 Agroalimentaria Fair said that this event was the most important business platform for the food sector in the Caribbean region and a unique opportunity to showcase and promote the best local products, boost exports, access new markets, and publicize the country's high quality production capacity.
He said producers would exhibit vegetables, condiments and spices, bananas, coffee and cocoa, tropical fruits, cigarettes, beer and the best Dominican rums, tubers and aromatic plants, among other products.
Mansfield added that there would also be technical seminars in the Fair.
Source: hoy.com.do