AU: Ginger crop down 20%
President Anthony Rehbein says growers were battling a drought when flooding rains devastated their farms.
"We've estimated we're around 1,000 tonne down, which is probably around 20 per cent down in production," he said.
"Earlier in the season we had no rain and growers were running out of water quite quickly.
"Then to get that sheer flood of rain - it's one extreme to the other and we're just not used to that quantity of rain."
He says it went from drought to flood in less than a week.
"No grower has escaped the weather that we have received earlier in the year - that being the dry weather before the rain and then the extensive quantities of rain that we received," he said.
"Everyone is down in production - it doesn't matter whether you're a tomato or a zucchini grower who grew through that period, anyone who's got crops in has got a reduced tonnage."
Source: abc.net.au
