2017 garlic big harvest, but the price cut close to the current wholesale price to less than 6 yuan / kg, down over 40%, appear price increments, garlic base wound situation. However, statistics show that in the first half of Shandong, exports of garlic and products 633 thousand tons, 1 billion 318 million U. s.dollars, an increase of 7.84% and 26.29%, respectively. Why garlic can achieve inverse growth, why appear "scenery wall flower incense outside the wall"?
According to the inspection and quarantine departments feedback, mainly from two major factors: first, changes in the structure of export products, high value-added products gradually increased. In recent years, in order to expand the influence in the international market, in the high-end market to adapt to consumer demand, the inspection and quarantine departments in collaboration with local government to actively guide the enterprises to extend the industrial chain, promoting the enterprise on-line processing project, improve product value and profit rate, promote agricultural industrial transformation to garlic garlic, garlic export structure change slowly.
Before 2016, fresh garlic and garlic products accounted for nearly 8 of our total exports, accounting for about 6 of the total value. In 2017, the frozen dehydrated garlic mashed garlic and garlic black garlic products and high value-added products exports accounted for more than 45% for the first time, the garlic and its products export growth contribution rate of more than 70%.
Two is the export market structure change, the developed country and the region demand is exuberant. Our export of fresh garlic and other primary agricultural products, low added value, low profit margins, export price of 1.52 U. S. dollars / kg, the market is mainly Indonesia, Malaysia, Vietnam, Brazil and so on. The export of garlic processing products mainly include garlic, dehydrated garlic, black garlic and other products, the added value of the product is 5~10 times of dehydrated garlic fresh garlic, black garlic value-added products is as high as fresh garlic was more than 20 times, the average export price of $4.46 / kg, is the main market, the United States, the European Union japan.
The first half of the province of garlic and its products in the United States, the European Union and Japan's exports reached $246 million, $119 million and $67 million, an average increase of over 150%, while the first traditional export market for Indonesia $143 million, an increase of only 11% in the United States, a province of garlic and products export market first. High added value products in developed countries and regions have increased, creating a different kind of landscape inside the wall, which makes garlic exports soar against the wind.
