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Press Release Agriculture, Fisheries and Aquaculture Successful New Brunswick potato export to Cuba (03/11/27) NB 1128 Nov. 27, 2003 FREDERICTON (CNB) - The 2003 order of New Brunswick seed potatoes exported
to Cuba will be in the vicinity of 21, 000 metric tonnes, worth about $6 million, Agriculture, Fisheries and Aquaculture Minister
David Alward said today. "I am very pleased that our seed potato exporters have been successful once
again in marketing potatoes in Cuba," Alward said.
The project includes the establishment
and planting of variety evaluation trials in Cuba, as well as a field day and technical seminar to be held in Cuba toward
the end of their growing season. "The project will strengthen ties between Cuba and New Brunswick and promote
the prosperity and growth of the New Brunswick seed potato industry," Alward said. New Brunswick has been supplying seed potatoes to Cuba for over 80 years.
Varieties include Chieftain, Atlantic, Red La Soda, LaRouge, Red Pontiac and Cal White. The 2003 order also included 1,300
metric tonnes of Shepody and Russet Burbank table stock potatoes. 03/11/27 MEDIA CONTACT: Jean-François Pelletier, Agriculture, Fisheries & Aquaculture,
506-444-4218. Two separate trade delegations left New Brunswick for the Leeward Islands and Mexico (March 16-22, 1997)
as part of the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development and Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada's aggressive trade and
market expansion initiatives. The trade delegation to the Leeward Islands includes the following
companies: G.E. Barbour Inc; Atlantic Refreshments Ltd.; Hub Meat Packers Ltd.; Dairytown Products Ltd.; Havelock Lime Works;
N.B. AgriExport Inc., and Atlantic Allstar Genetics. "We hope to give a few of our agri-food exporters a glimpse
of the agri-food sector in these islands in order to get a better understanding of the area, the people and their needs. This,
in turn, should result in creating a future export market between New Brunswick and those targeted islands," Agriculture and
Rural Development Minister Doug Tyler said. The Mexico trade delegation includes the following companies:
Tobique Farms Ltd.; Hettema; Drummond Seed Potato Co., and N.B. AgriExport Inc. "The trade mission's objective to Mexico is to help re-establish
New Brunswick's presence in Mexico's seed potato market, and to increase our exposure, as well as to introduce Mexican buyers
to New Brunswick exporters, and to familiarize our exporters with three of the most important areas of the Mexican potato
market," Tyler explained. The Mexican market, closed for three years, re-opened in 1996,
and N.B. exports continue to climb toward pre-border closure levels. These two trade missions are a component of the trade expansion
initiative, a co-operative project between Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada and the New Brunswick Department of Agriculture
and Rural Development. The project is funded through the Canada/New Brunswick Regional Economic Development Agreement. "Expanding exports can be one of Cana's most important sources
of new job creation in the future. The federal government is therefore pleased to help businesses explore potential markets
through these trade missions", said Fernand Robichaud, secretary of state (Agriculture and Agri-Food, Fisheries and Oceans),
on behalf of Lawrence MacAulay, secretary of state (Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency, and Veterans). "Our government is very pleased to assist with these type of
initiatives through the federal-provincial agreement as they potentially contribute to the expansion of international markets
for our agricultural products and the creation of jobs in both the primary and secondary sectors of the New Brunswick economy,"
added Jean Paul Savoie, the provincial minister responsible for the Regional Development Corporation and Northern Development. The Canada/New Brunswick Regional Economic Development Agreement
is administered for the federal government by the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency(ACOA), and for the provincial government
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