5 Mar 2025

Why is New Zealand garlic so expensive?

From Checkpoint, 4:07 pm on 5 March 2025

At Woolworths a single bulb of garlic costs four dollars for one. Garlic imported from China is selling for three dollars and 99 cents a bag, with about a dozen bulbs in a bag. So what is the difference? John Murphy, the CEO of Murphy's Garlic and the Chair of Vegetables NZ, spoke to Lisa Owen.