Wayne Prowse of Fresh Intelligence Consulting told Fresh Plaza that, between 2016 - 17, vegetable exports declined in key markets such as Indonesia, Europe and Taiwan.

"The main reasons for this decline is a drop in demand for onions from Europe, a return to normal trade to Taiwan after increased demand in 2016 due to the typhoons damaging local crops, and the swinging door of Indonesia's import conditions," said Wayne.

Although the volume of fresh vegetable exports declined 13 per cent overall the value increase 2 per cent to $AU252M as the mix changed with more higher value products being exported such as lettuce and broccoli. Read more of this Fresh Plaza article....