The owners of Bikurei Sadeh, the leading logistics company in Israel, visited Tbilisi. The company is interested in cooperating with Georgia to import a large amount of fruits and vegetables from Georgia.
Currently, the company is studying Georgia’s potential, agricultural crops, and its owners have already had meetings with the Agrarian Affairs Committee of the Georgian Parliament and the leadership of the Friendship Group with the Israeli Knesset. The conversation at the meeting in the Parliament touched on future cooperation in the field of trade and knowledge sharing between startups.
According to Ilan Sheva, who is the director and founder of the largest fruit and vegetable importing company Bikurei Sadeh, there are plans to open a department of Georgia in Israel, which will study the growing seasons and potential of agricultural crops in Georgia.
A preparatory group has already been formed, which includes Bikurei Sadeh, Neumann Group and Agro G.I.
Gela Samkharauli, chairman of the Parliamentary Agrarian Affairs Committee, and Givi Mikanadze, head of the friendship group with the Israeli Knesset, Georgian entrepreneurs and farmers will be supported as much as possible so that their products meet the requirements of the Israeli market.
The visit to the Parliament of Georgia was preceded by a working meeting attended by the Israeli Knesset Friendship Group with Georgia, the leaders of the Knesset Economic Group, the Ministry of Agriculture of Georgia and the Georgia Parliament Friendship Group with Israel.
At the meetings held in parliament, the head of the Israel-Georgia Chamber of Business, Itsik Moshe, said that the import to Israel from Turkey was more than 10 billion. And after the suspension of imports from Turkey, new markets are being sought. It should be noted that 225,000 tons of fruits and vegetables entered Israel in the last year, and Jordan alone accounts for 20% of that.
Now, through joint work, it is possible for Georgia to partially replace the export from Turkey to Israel. This issue will be one of the main topics at the business forum planned in Tbilisi this December, organized by the Israel-Georgia Chamber of Business and Israeli House.
Translated by Ana Dumbadze
