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By Rod Nickel and Farah Master
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WINNIPEG, Manitoba/HONG KONG, Sept 30 (Reuters) - The pandemic's squashing impact on worldwide travel has actually grounded Canadian exports of ginseng, a root commonly utilized in Asia to deal with everything from the acute rhinitis to impotency, at a time when health is top of customers' minds.

Canada is the world's second-largest ginseng exporter after China, with many of its exports shipped to Hong Kong on their method to mainland China, Singapore and Taiwan.

The pandemic has actually devastated the specific niche trade, nevertheless, in another example of the infection's interruption to the global food and agriculture supply chain. Outbreaks have also stopped fruit shipments, shut down meat plants and sickened migrant farm workers.

Farmers in the United States, the fourth-largest exporter, are suffering too.

A ginseng crop can take up to five years to grow. But even as he begins this year's harvest, Remi Van De Slyke in Norfolk County, Ontario, has a barn complete of in 2015's ginseng.

The issue is that travel constraints have stopped Chinese purchasers from visiting to examine the crop, which has depressed sales.

Canada's diplomatic strains with Beijing have not helped, stated Van De Slyke, chairman of Ontario Ginseng Growers Association.

"Everyone is locked down which's causing us a huge issue," he said. "We're struck in all directions here."

Across Canada, as much as 1.8 million pounds, or 20% of in 2015's crop, stays unsold, stated Rebecca Coates, executive director of the Ontario growers association.

Canada delivered 354,305 kg worth C$ 11 million ($8.22 million)to Hong Kong from May through July this year as coronavirus infections peaked in Canada, one-third of the value from the exact same period a year earlier.

Lately, some buyers have been "circling like sharks" to see if they can buy for less than the production cost, Coates said.

HEALTH AWARENESS RISING

Demand in China looks strong.

A Chinese medicine trader who is a veteran Canadian ginseng importer based in Xiamen city, Fujian province, says health is an even higher concern after the pandemic.

"After COVID-19, people's awareness for health care may increase more than in the past (and) we may increase our imports too," the trader stated.

Sales of Chinese-grown ginseng have increased recently as a substitute Cure for Impotence more expensive imports, stated a salesperson at a Chinese medication store in Baotou, Inner Mongolia.

Wholesale importers have actually been understood to purchase as much as 100,000 pounds of ginseng separately at Ontario-based Great Mountain Ginseng, which was forced to shut its retailers, consisting of one at Niagara Falls, throughout .

The shops have actually reopened, however the buyers and tourists have not return, stated basic supervisor Schelling Yeh.

"We have actually been hit hard," Yeh said. "If you're unable to see the item are you ready to buy it?"

Canada's farming ministry is trying to help the ginseng sector diversify to other markets, spokesperson James Watson said.

Across the border, most U.S. ginseng is grown in Wisconsin. President Donald Trump, who is running Cure for ED re-election on Nov. 3, noted farmers' discomfort as he revealed a brand-new round of pandemic aid in the battlefield state.
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But Trump's disputes with Chinese management over trade concerns have actually done more to dissuade U.S. sales to China than the coronavirus crisis, said Wisconsin farmer Mike Burmeister.

"Chinese trade is so essential to my industry. The world actually is a small place when it concerns ginseng." ($1 = 1.3389 Canadian dollars) (Reporting by Rod Nickel in Winnipeg, Manitoba and Farah Master in Hong Kong