According to the Australian Garlic Industry Association imports have been fumigated with methyl bromide and is often bleached.
Nick Diamantopolous of Australian Garlic Producers told abc.net today that growing garlic is not as easy as it seems. "It's the unforgiving crop and if you don't do everything at the right time when it's due it will come and bite you at the end," he said.
The main difficulty in increasing the garlic production in Australia is lack of healthy virus free seed stock.
There has been a recent rise in demand for Australian grown garlic which might be enough to regenerate the market.
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