date:Jun 15, 2017
rt demand has been so strong that there've been countries buying that class-3 fruit that we would normally send to the juice factory.
Some local bottlers have been caught out and have had to import juice to replace their previous local supplies, Mr Cant said.
Our juice suppliers have been operating on maybe an oversupply mentality for so long that they think that they think they can just pay 15-20 cents a kilo for this fruit, he said.
But the growers have had better options to send it oversea