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a Basel-based grocer and butcher, Jakupaj is always seeking to expand his offering of Kosovo imports. However, he recognizes the stiff competition Kosovos food industry faces as it rebuilds after its post-war collapse. That is what is missingmarketing. Consumers in Switzerland lack awareness of many of these products, Jakupaj said. To address that problem, USAID has facilitated both private label production and test shipments of export product. For example, Rizona, a Kosovo food processor, exported a single truckload of pickled peppers to Germany in 2010 as a A display of Kosovo produced peppers, test; this year, it will export 10 truckloads, company owner pickled and in form of ajvar. Bashkim Bytyqi said. The peppers are sold through Kelmendi GmbH, a distributor catering to Germanys several hundred thousand Kosovars.
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They can absorb all we can produce, said Bytyqi, whose firm also signed a new deal to export pumpkins to Switzerland on a trial basis.