Minister of Agriculture Rural Growth and the Surroundings Costas Kadis attended on Wednesday the primary ever manufacturing of the standard Cypriot halloumi cheese bearing for the primary time the certificates of product of protected designation of origin (PDO).
The primary badge of halloumi bearing the PDO certificates was produced within the “SOMIS Dairy Business” in Frenaros.
In statemetns to the press, Kadis stated “immediately is a day of nice satisfaction seeing the efforts aiming to consolidate our nationwide product, the standard halloumi, bearing fruit.”
Noting that this historic dairy gives halloumi to the Scandinavian market, Kadis stated that “Sweden is the world’s second per capita shopper of halloumi after Cyprus.”
“All of us perceive the significance of this collaboration. Such synergies will spotlight our product at a worldwide stage and can present added worth which all of us search and can present the product’s high quality,” he stated.
Kadis additionally urged different dairies to enter this course of so “to see the true advantages from the designation of halloumi as a PDO offering earnings in all facets of the meals chain.”
Replying to a query, Kadis defined that there are dairies that haven’t launched into the brand new manufacturing course of, as they nonetheless search to exhaust their present shares or for different causes. “I consider that all of us have to enter this course of and this street that opened immediately might be adopted by the remainder (of the producers),” he stated.
On his half, Loizos Papadoloulos proprietor of the Fonatan Meals AB, based mostly in Sweden, stated his mother and father hailing from Morphou took to Sweden 40 halloumi cheese items which had been offered in a yr, whereas this nation immediately boasts the most important per capita consumption of halloumi after Cyprus.
He expressed pleasure over the manufacturing of halloumi with the PDO designation as a result of, as he stated, “we consider it will enhance the standard of the product.”
After years of unsuccessful efforts, halloumi has been designated as PDO by the European Fee in April 2021, thus defending the he precious identify towards imitation and misuse throughout the EU. Solely Χαλλούμι/Halloumi/Hellim produced in Cyprus in keeping with the product specification is now allowed to make use of the registered identify.