date:Mar 04, 2014
Shipping of South African lemons to the Middle East market has been going on for around five weeks now, and according to David Pearce from GF Marketing they are fetching a good price. The market is virtually empty, normally you have lemons from Turkey but traditionally these are trucked in by road through Syria but that has become more difficult due to the strife there. Exporters are having to send them by sea container which is very expensive.
The first South African lemons are reaching 23-26