EU: Most of the basil comes from Kenya

Although more expensive, basil shipments also come from Israel, as well as from Morocco, but the quality of the basil grown in the latter country is lower. This season of Italian basil, which dominates the European market during the summer, did not start properly, because the weather was very rainy during the sowing period in mid-March and early April, most of the seeds were destroyed in the soil, and the producers had to sow again. In June, at the beginning of the harvest, they were ...