Opinion by: Henry Duckworth, founder and CEO of AgriDex
We all need and buy it. Food is a common, universal ground across the planet. It should come as no surprise then that the agricultural industry is enormous. In 2023, the European Union alone data-ct-non-breakable=”null” href=”https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php?title=Extra-EU_trade_in_agricultural_goods” rel=”null” target=”null” text=”null” title=”null”>imported 154 million tonnes of agricultural products and exported 134 million tonnes more. The market is growing too, data-ct-non-breakable=”null” href=”https://www.statista.com/outlook/io/agriculture/worldwide” rel=”null” target=”null” text=”null” title=”null”> projected to expand by 3.45% annually from this year to reach $5.52 trillion by 2029.
Yet, farmers and agricultural traders are confronted with a serious problem. They need to export food…
