date:May 23, 2016
arket has been difficult for us. There has been a ban put on transport by plane. We were forced to send our garlic by sea, which meant it took a whole 25 days to get there. We were aiming to export over 130 tons to Australia, but instead we only managed to send about 55 tot 60 tons. A lot of our customers switched over to importing garlic from Mexico.
In this season, Stars of Export has a volume of about 600 tons of garlic. About 150 tons had to be sourced from other suppliers. However, a large