When women work in the field of fishery, they are usually employed in processing fishery products (processing frozen produce, cannery, preparation of smoked and salted food) and in trade.

Can South South trade in semi processed goods for further processing, and in partially processed goods for processing into final agro industry related products, be translated into enhanced income to primary producers?

Thus, for example, imports of processed agricultural products into the OECD grew by 5.4 per cent over the 1990s as against 2 per cent for unprocessed products.

Moreover, a levy is applied to take account of added sugar contained in certain processed products.

Unfortunately, recent data do not yet allow up to date global trade data disaggregation by processed and unprocessed products.

Products include building materials, jewellery, printing and furniture, as well as chemical processing.

Many other agricultural products and processed agricultural products obtain only a partial reduction of the MFN duties.

In agriculture and the agro industry, biotechnology could facilitate the development of improved crops and new products and contribute toward improving production.

There is also a strong tendency of tariff escalation for processed products.

There are obvious attractions for developing countries (with a tropical climate) in pursuing the opportunities in the processed tropical products market, especially for pineapple, mango, papaya and banana, which form the backbone of trade in tropical products, and other minor products such as lychees, rambutan, jackfruit, and vegetable products, such as okra.

It can be a homogeneous product, especially at the producer processor level.

Poultry processors in Thailand are changing their operations towards higher value added items, including cooked products.

To diversify production in developing countries, including food production, and to expand processing of primary products in developing countries with a view to promoting their industrialization and increasing their export earnings

Processing and marketing of agricultural products.

Market entry is generally more difficult for processed products than for raw materials owing to the more complex and exacting requirements that exporters must comply with for processed products.

Crude steel is used to produce semi finished and finished products destined for internal consumption as inputs for further processing or for sale.

Its goal is to produce handicrafts using waste products recycled from the sea.

If assurances are not given that the imported fish or fishery products have been processed under conditions that are equivalent to those required of domestic processors, the products will be denied entry.

Of California's 90 seafood processors in 1995, only five processed significant quantities of swordfish.

(2) An enterprise engaged in food production or marketing shall have workshops or other premises for the preparation of raw materials and for processing, packing and storage that are commensurate with the varieties and quantities of the products handled

The interventions build on commodities and the related secondary agro processing industries with emphasis on food (e.g. fish, meat, dairy, vegetable oils) and non food (wood and non wood forest products, textiles and garments, leather and skins) products.

Increased emphasis placed on rigorous quality control for processed products is one factor which makes exporting of such products considerably more difficult than that of raw material.

This project was launched by the Director General on 11 March 2005, and focuses on agro and food processing and on the pulp and paper sectors.

In this context, all shipments of processed foods must be accompanied by a complete list of ingredients, including food additives, and a description of the manufacturing process used to process the food.

Successful meat processing companies strive for further improvements in product range and quality in the light of specific needs of each market.

The complaints were based solely on economic evidence, which included declining prices received by the producers from the processors and the inability of producers to sell their product to any processor other than the one they currently did business with.

The latter are usually the modern manufacturing industries which produce for export rather than for the domestic market.

(e) Promote efficient production and processing of forest products, with a view, inter alia, to reducing waste and enhancing recycling

The introduction of new products which may affect a person apos s health or his faculties is subject to prior authorization by the competent authority Ministry of Public Health for drugs, Ministry of Industry for industrial products, and Ministry of Agriculture for factory produced foodstuffs.

For purposes of ensuring the accessibility of credit resources for rural commodity producers and farm product processing enterprises, the State joint stock company Agrarian Credit Corporation was created.

Processors also seem to be pushing this product more aggressively than in the past, as a means of diversifying their exports.

Origins that have been most successful in exporting processed products are those that have large domestic markets and whose processing operation is not totally dependent on export markets.

Act No. 51 of 1995 on payments from the Unemployment Insurance Fund to workers in the fish processing industry

Regulations No. 318 1995 on payments from the Unemployment Insurance Fund to workers in the fish processing industry

The program to promote the brands of Chinese products shall be accelerated, the development of physical stores supported, and online offline interaction achieved.

Improved market access for primary commodities, especially in their processed forms, should be provided, particularly by developed countries.

Most international trade is in chilled frozen meat, in the form of cuts further processed products only account for about 10 per cent of world trade but world demand is increasing for further processed convenience products.

Market information and contacts are particularly important for exporting processed cocoa products because they are generally tailored to the needs of an individual customer.

Due consideration should be given to agro food, fibre processing and product innovation in order to enhance market access capabilities.

Privatization processes should be deepened and integrated structures set up for producing, processing, storing and selling agricultural produce.

(d) Participation in the work of international organizations and normative bodies, the promotion of research on priority novel commodities, the preparation of training manuals and tool kits for agro processing technologies, and the dissemination of agro industrial information for decision making.

This implies in turn for exporters that access to exports for processed industrial products becomes more difficult, and that vertical diversification of production for exports of higher value added products is slowed down.

Moreover, graduation into quot value added quot agro based manufacturing is highly desirable.

Thus, for example, the plant where the product is made is included in the cost of the product, even though the plant remains fixed in its place over a long period of time.

There are several cases of additional duties to compensate processing industries for higher prices of agricultural inputs.