The high market demand Egyptian dry garlic means an even more successful season than the previous year, claims Ahmed Adel, CEO of Egyptian exporter Global Veg Egy: “This year’s crop, the area of land planted this year was very minimal as compared to previous seasons. Our company, however, has continued to grow in the same areas that we did last year so we’re certain that we will be able to meet our customers’ requirements. This being said, demands from our customers are higher than in ever before. It’s a good thing that the season kicked off slightly earlier than usual this year!”

In the past, before the dry garlic was harvested fresh garlic, the fresh variety had proved to be a successful season. However, in both dry and fresh garlic, there’s been some issues in transport, Adel explains. “So so far, we’ve experienced a very promising year which has seen both fresh white as well as purple garlic due to an excellent harvest. We did face a lot of difficulties with the shipping process this year. From the cost-intensive the air-based loading process, and delays of a significant amount when shipping via shipping by sea. In the end, at the end of the day, we’re pleased about the weather.”

The demand has been so high the demand has been so strong the fact that Adel required to deliver garlic that was not completely dried, as per client’s request “Normally we’d like to provide 100% dried garlic, however many of our clients did not want to be waiting around. In order to compensate them and ease their out, we decided to begin packing after the garlic was barely 50 per cent dried. In the current year, dried garlic costs are high, comparable to fresh garlic costs because of the limited amount of the good garlic harvest. This is why I anticipate an intense competition from Chinese the garlic harvest this season because their prices are low this year.”

After such a positive first week of the season Adel is hoping that his business will be able to access new markets by utilizing the dried garlic in this season. “We already have agreements for our clients and want to create new markets to us like those in the Dominic Republic, Lithuania, Canada as well as others. Presently, we’re supplying Europe, Australia, USA as well as Taiwan. Since we serve both wholesalers as well as retailers, we ensure that our clients have the best expectations when it comes to packing, quality as well as the required certificates including Global gap Grasp as well as Sedex.”

“This year, I’m hoping to prolong our first Class season through mid-August. This is similar to the previous year. We prepared enough quantities to support our activities, since we dry and store the garlic in our kitchens, so that we can make sure the garlic is of high top quality.” Adel concludes.

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Ahmed Adel

Global Veg Egy

Tel: +201126684494

Email: Sales@globalvegy.com

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