Argentina’s Mendoza area has started the garlic harvesting with a 50% increase in prices expected due to rains in the Northern Hemisphere that caused lower production for large producers in Spain and China. According to Mariano Ruggeri, the owner of Mendoza Exports, a garlic producer and exporter from Argentina, “On garlic prices we could be 50% higher than last year due to the rains in the northern hemisphere growing countries.”