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Friday, 29.03.2024, 08:52
Chinese customs officials to inspect Lithuanian grain growers
"The embassy has issued the visas under a fast-track
procedure and they are arriving on Monday to begin work tomorrow," Agriculture
Minister Giedrius Surplys told.
Rasa Rimkute, acting director of the State Plant
Service under the Agriculture Ministry, said the Chinese delegation would
stay in Lithuania until the end of the week.
"They are interested in grain growing and
exporting business entities, because they want to see how the entire
system -- from growing up to exporting -- functions in Lithuania and if it
would meet their country's requirements," Rimkute said.
"This is about opening up the grain market," she
added.
Ausrys Macijauskas, chairman of
the Lithuanian Grain Growers' Association, told that the opening of
the Chinese market would have no major impact on grain producers.
Lithuanian grain is of high quality, which is not very
important for China, which imports cheaper grain from other countries and will
not be willing to pay more for Lithuanian grain, he said.
Lithuania exported 2 mln tons of grain, including 1.3 mln
tons of wheat sold mainly to Saudi Arabia, Nigeria, Spain, Poland and other
EU countries, in January through September 2018, based on figures from the
association.