The shortage of garlic on the European market is compensated by imports from China and Chile

In the European garlic market, there is a significant need for imports from China and Chile due to a crop failure, writes AgroTimes. The main producer of garlic in Europe is Spain, but this year has been very difficult for them due to floods that destroyed a lot of the crop. When sending requests for garlic of the most desired sizes, we received information about the absence of the product or an offer with a purchase price comparable to the sale price in European supermarkets. Some countries, for example, Poland, have their own garlic crops, but cannot meet their own needs, let alone export, said Agatha Czyzewska-Zyarnyk, procurement specialist at the Polish trader Falcon. To meet the needs of consumers, traders turned to China and South American countries. Importing garlic from China is quite an affordable solution, but mainly for the processing industry and HoReCa. But in many households in some European countries, there is a prejudice that everything Chinese, including garlic, ...