date:Jul 27, 2023
st-lived tropical storm ever (lasting over 5 weeks!) caused severe flooding and the ginger market now sees its result on the ginger crop grown in the northeast of South Africa and in Mozambique.
Ginger is very scarce, says a ginger trader at Johannesburg market, and not only the rhizomes for consumption but the plant material too with the heavy rains and a prolonged period of waterlogged soils, ginger growers had lost their propagation crop too.
Fresh ginger is selling for very high prices: F