Australian avocado growers are strengthening export processes and learning about market access opportunities thanks to $109,176 of grants under the Package Assisting Small Exporters (PASE) extension program.
Agriculture Minister David Littleproud said the two grants awarded to Avocados Australia Ltd would help avocado growers find new export market opportunities and reduce export compliance costs.
"Australians already know how good our avocados are. This support will help the industry expand into new markets and find new fans around the world," Minister Littleproud said.
"The new resources developed by Avocados Australia clearly step through what avocado growers and packhouse staff must do to meet Japanese and New Zealand avocado import requirements.
"These resources have also been designed to accommodate future expansion into new markets, so they stay relevant.
"The new online avocado registration system project streamlines export accreditation enhancing data collection consistency, traceability and transparency.
"Long term this will lead to faster accreditation, increased compliance, increased registrations and decreased administration costs.
Josh Franceschi from The Avocado Collective said there is a pool of growers keen to export their avocados to Japan and they are assisting them with their registration.
"The successful PASE project was great at providing very clear information to help explain the requirements and saved us lots of time with onboarding new growers.
"We've been exporting to Japan for a few years now and the application process been always done manually.
"The new online registration program developed through the successful PASE project provides us with a one stop online solution to gather and upload all the required information digitally."
