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CONSULTATIONS ON FOOD-PROCESSING INDUSTRY BEING HELD
Posting Date: 09/24/89 Source: UNITEX Network, Hoboken, NJ, USA
Host: (201) 795-0733 ISSN: 1043-7932
SOVIET UNION, 18 - 23 SEPTEMBER
MOSCOW, 20 September (UN Information Centre) -- Of serious
concern to Governments and international organizations dealing
with development are food problems and food security in
developing countries. Many developing countries are constantly
faced with major problems concerning the provision to their
populations of sufficient amounts of food, which has resulted in
a number of people suffering from malnutrition.
Those problems are on the agenda of consultations on the
food-processing industry, including special emphasis on the
processing of fruit and vegetables organized by the United
Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO), and hosted
by the Government of the Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic,
which opened in Tbilisi, the capital city, on 18 September.
The meeting, attended by 50 participants from 39 countries of
Africa, Asia, Latin America, Europe and the Middle East, is
exchanging views on national strategies and policies in the
field of fruit and vegetable processing, its efficiency and
productivity, the integration of agriculture and industry, and
manpower training and marketing.
In his opening statement, A.B. Araoz, Deputy Director-General of
UNIDO, stressed that the fruit and vegetable processing
subsector of the food- processing industry was an area where
huge potential resources existed in developing countries. He
emphasized further that the development of the fruit and
vegetable processing industry in developing countries could
contribute to the reduction of post-harvest losses of fruit and
vegetables, thus increasing the availability of food for the
population, and raising the income of farmers.
With only 15 to 20 per cent of fruit and vegetables from
developing countries exported in a preserved state, the meeting
aims to tackle the dual problem of boosting output and
increasing exports, and will focus on basic requirements for the
long-term viability of the fruit and vegetable processing
industry, as well as prospects for international co-operation.
The meeting will consider the role of international
organizations, financing, technology, equipment, access to
market information and south-south co-operation, and focus
particularly on the developing of agro and allied industries,
considered as priority areas in UNIDO's contribution to the
process of industrialization.
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