Israel’s Year-Round Growing Seasons Leading Edge on Competitors | Algemeiner.com

Israel’s Year-Round Growing Seasons Leading Edge on Competitors | Algemeiner.com

Israel’s year-round growing season has pushed it past competitors in some of the U.K.’s biggest food markets, the British Daily Mail reported on Tuesday. Gordon Bickel, the head of Israel’s largest agricultural produce exporter Carmel Agrexco, said Israelis’ ease with European languages (many emigrated from European countries to the Jewish state), the high quality of its fruits and vegetables, and the good weather have given it an edge over many British and Spanish competitors in huge grocery chains like Tesco. Trade between the U.K. and Israel is at an all time high, at about $7.9 billion. […]