ASTA’s International Executive Committee Meets with Cuba Ambassador

On April 3 in Washington, D.C., ASTA leadership and members of the International Executive Committee (IEC) met with José Ramón Cabañas, the Cuban Ambassador to the U.S., to discuss the Cuban seed industry and the potential for future collaboration. The IEC also met with representatives from the Brazil, Chile, and Mexico embassies, and staff from the U.S. Department of Agriculture Office of Trade Programs and Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service.

The ASTA IEC is a group of ASTA members that represent ASTA’s broad constituency to guide ASTA’s international activities and set international priorities.