China's garlic export market has a higher concentration risk

China is the world’s largest producer and consumer of garlic. In recent years, garlic has become China's first export exchange vegetable. The reporter learned that China's garlic export market is relatively concentrated and there are major risks.

Shandong's garlic exports rank first in the country, and Shandong's garlic export market is mainly concentrated in Asia, especially in Indonesia, Malaysia, India, Japan, South Korea and other regions.

Concentration of export markets has made garlic exports in Shandong dependent on the above areas. Once the economic development in these areas fluctuates, resulting in insufficient market demand, it will bring a fatal blow to the export of garlic in Shandong Province.

On the other hand, the status quo of the concentrated export market is also likely to cause vicious competition among exporting companies, and the competition for price reduction. This situation will cause China's garlic to be blocked on the road to deeper opening up the international market and will lose the initiative to compete for markets and expand exports.

Because many companies enter the agricultural product export market for a short period of time, with a small business scale and poor information channels, their ability to resist risks is weak. Many garlic export companies do not have the ability to resist risks when their exports are blocked. When faced with a situation, it is simply keeping prices down. Disorderly competition is extremely harmful to exports, and enterprises should undoubtedly increase their organizational level.

In this regard, the industry suggested that an early warning mechanism should be established for the export of agricultural products to prevent export risks. In the export of agricultural products, not only the supply and demand information of foreign markets, but also the situation of Chinese agricultural products entering this market, in order to avoid excessive concentration of the export of Chinese agricultural products to a certain target market or excessively fast growth, it is easy to cause the target market country to We implement anti-dumping or safeguard measures to increase the export costs of Chinese agricultural products and weaken export competitiveness.

At the same time, we should actively promote the construction of agricultural informatization and reduce information risks. Agricultural products export information service is an important part of agricultural information construction. In view of the fact that China's agricultural product export enterprises are still dominated by small and medium-sized enterprises, they have a low degree of organization, and have difficulties in collecting information. The government should integrate information resources and enrich the contents of public services.

Any commodities relying on a single market support are more risky and do not meet the objective requirements of “sustainable” development. Therefore, on the basis of consolidating and developing traditional markets, companies should look to more countries and regions, choose suitable regional markets and market segments, and diversify export risks.

The government and relevant industry organizations should actively organize garlic export enterprises to participate in various overseas exhibitions, expositions, and negotiation meetings. The relevant functional departments should support the export enterprises in their target markets for export to conduct market inspections, policies and regulations, encourage export enterprises to launch product promotion and promotion activities overseas, and use the international market development funds of SMEs to give preferential support to agricultural product export enterprises to participate in international professional exhibitions. New markets, new product promotion activities.