LARUT, July 12 – A total of 500 to 1,000 metric tons of fresh premium durians, especially of the Musang King variety will be exported to China this October, Agriculture director-general Datuk Nor Sam Alwi said.
The durians will be exported through 52 processing and packaging centres owned by the Agriculture and Food Security Ministry throughout the country, she added.
“We expect (it exported in) October but everything depends on the speed and approval from the General Administration of Customs of the People’s Republic of China (GACC), while the supply of premium durians are from farmers registered under the ministry who have Malaysian Good Agricultural Practices (myGAP) certification,” she said when met after an engagement session with durian producers for the China market at the Federal Agricultural Marketing Agency (FAMA) operations centre on Thursday.
Agriculture and Food Security Minister Datuk Seri Mohamad Sabu had previously signed a protocol on phytosanitary protocols for the exportation of fresh durian with the GACC to expand the sale of durian from Malaysia to China.
