20.10.2018
IGTC welcomed at South African grain trade annual meeting

IGTC thanks the South African Cereals and Oilseeds Trade Association (SACOTA - sacota.co.za) for the opportunity to attend its annual meeting on 10 October in Pretoria. IGTC took the opportunity to highlight the activities, projects and successes of our collective work to achieve a market and regulatory system that is supportive of the grain trade.

At the meeting, SACOTA Chairman Konrad Keyser, and executives De Wet Boshoff and Dirk Kok presented the vision of SACOTA to be a significant, influential and respected force in the Southern African grain and agricultural sector.

This year's GLI meeting took place on 27 and 28 September in Natal, Brazil. Tyler Bjornson and Krista Thomas of Canada Grains Council (CGC) took the floor on behalf of the IGTC, presenting evidence to an audience of government representatives about the need for science and risk based LLP policies for grain trade facilitation.

An important element of the industry participation at this event was the revised policy document of the Global Alliance on Ag Biotech Trade (GAABT - www.gaabt.org), which addresses the potential for trade   disruptive situations owing to the asynchronous approval of products of plant biotechnology.

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