Garlic consumption predicted to increase in Europe

The garlic market faces many challenges: transport costs, the US dollar, quality, sizes, colours, labour, licences and many other factors, EastFruit reports. However, Danny Dean, CEO of the Dutch horticultural importer and exporter Denimpex, predicted an increase in garlic consumption in Europe due to population growth due to immigration. This is stated in the publication FreshPlaza. “Europe faces a number of challenges in its growing regions, such as weather, labour costs and transport. Spanish garlic growers have completely run out of stocks from previous seasons this spring, which has not happened in the last three years. The season started with high prices, and only small growers and packing stations sold garlic at lower prices due to their cash needs. However, these countries have already exhausted their stocks, and only large growers have some stocks left. These large growers will probably let prices rise until the new season, as they are not under financial pressure,” Danny ...