date:Dec 13, 2012
e allowing its direct exports, worth 38M between January 2011 and August 2012.
Total exports of Scottish food and drink rose by 44% to reach 92M last year, compared with 64M in 2010.
Asia export target
The success in China has resulted in Scotland revising its Asia export target of 5.1bn to 7.1bn by 2017, after the initial target was met six years early.
Last month, Richard Lochead, Scottish rural affairs secretary, led a delegation of 17 Scottish food and drink firms to China and Japan in a