PH, Iowa Enhance Agriculture Cooperation
Consul General in Chicago Gina A. Jamoralin discusses with Ioawa Agriculture Secretary Michael Naig, Agriculture Deputy Secretary Julie Kinney and IEDA Director Joseph Rude enhancement of economic cooperation between the U.S. state of Iowa and the Philippines in the area of agriculture. (Chicago PCG photo)
CHICAGO 05 November 2018 – On the sidelines of the 2018 Vorlaug World Food Conference, Consul General Gina A. Jamoralin met with Iowa’s Agriculture Secretary Michael Naig in Des Moines on 18 October 2018 to discuss how to further enhance economic cooperation between the U.S. state of Iowa and the Philippines in the area of agriculture.
The meeting discussed ways on how to promote two-way trade and how the Philippines could benefit from investments in food and agricultural processing technologies that would benefit the Filipino farmer and to help promote two-way exports between Iowa and Philippines.
The Philippines is Iowa’s 33rd largest export destination for its agricultural products such as pork, animal feed ingredients, soybean and soybean products. Iowa, on the other hand, imports manufactured and semi-manufactured products from the Philippines.
Consul General Jamoralin also discussed possibilities of university linkages between Iowa and Philippine universities in the field of agriculture. She also visited Iowa State University’s research and demonstration farm and the Department of Industrial Engineering.
She also met briefly with United States Agriculture Undersecretary Ted McKinney who was in Des Moines for the 2018 Vorlaug World Food Conference. Undersecretary McKinney recently had a bilateral meeting with Agriculture Secretary Emmanuel Piñol in Washington, D.C. last September. END
(From left) Deputy Secretary Julie Kenney, Philippine Consulate General in Chicago staff Joey Erandio, Consul General Gina A. Jamoralin, and Ioawa Agriculture Secretary Michael Naig. (Chicago PCG photo)
Consul General Gina A. Jamoralin (middle) with United States Undersecretary for Agriculture Ted McKinney (right) and Ioawa Economic Development Authority official Joseph Rude (left). (Chicago PCG photo)
Consul General Gina A. Jamoralin (second from left) with Iowa State University Industrial Engineering Department Chair Dr. Gul Kremer (leftmost), Administrative Specialist Krista Briley (second from right), and IEDA official Joseph Rude (rightmost at Dr. Kremer’s office. (Chicago PCG photo)
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