Escocia: Poor infrastructure detrimental to Scottish seed potato exports
Scotland is particularly poorly served by the low standards of export facilities available at the country’s ports.
Sources claim its sub-standard transport and supply chain logistics have added to an already difficult situation for the country’s seed potato industry.
This lack of comparable facilities and network infrastructure to those enjoyed by the competition in Holland and other European countries has prohibited efforts to make good the loss of EU markets.
Patrick Hughes, who headed up the recently set up Scottish Agriculture Exports Hub –run jointly by NFU Scotland and SAOS– recently said that the sector needed to give itself a fighting chance by working towards rectifying the troublesome transport and port issues.
He told the annual meeting of the SAC Association of Potato Producers that co-operation and collaboration, both within the industry and with other sectors, would set the way forward.
Fuente: https://www.freshplaza.com/article/9396870/poor-infrastructure-detrimental-to-scottish-seed-potato-exports/
