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Ginger shortage impacting ginger beer quality and price - SA producer
21 January 2021 7:13 PM
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Yamama Gemmer prides itself on using the best-quality imported ginger. Now it s forced to source the spice from wherever it can.
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The latest inflation numbers from Stats SA indicate that the average cost of food is rising at twice the rate of consumer price inflation.
Ginger is among those products to have seen skyrocketing prices, thanks also in the case of the spice to a surge in demand.
The spike in the price of their core ingredient has hit the business hard, says Mosibudi Makgato.