WILLEMSTAD - In the context of better support for local producers, the Ministry of Economic Development (MEO) has developed a database for the agricultural sector in which MEO intends to register all local fruit and vegetable producers who operate in this area. The purpose of this registration is to facilitate the connection between producers and supermarkets/distributors, as well as to improve the process of obtaining an exemption when importing certain fruits and vegetables (import duty exemption). In addition to all this, having a good overview of what we ourselves produce and sell locally in the agricultural sector helps MEO to provide better protection to local fruit and vegetable producers from the Government.
For this reason, MEO is calling on all fruit and vegetable producers who operate in this sector to register by no later than August 9, 2023, via the following link: https://bit.ly/DatabaseAgrario
After registration, MEO will schedule a meeting with each producer to personally input all the data into the database. The information in this database will only be used by MEO for the purpose of protecting local producers through the import duty exemption.
Through the introduction of this database, MEO aims to have better communication with local farmers to safeguard their interests and limit the importation of products that are locally produced.