pandemic’s crushing effect on international travel has grounded Canadian exports of ginseng, a root widely used in Asia to treat everything from the common cold to impotency, at a time when health is top of consumers’ minds.Canada is the world’s second-largest ginseng exporter after China, with most of its exports shipped to Hong Kong on their way to mainland China, Singapore and Taiwan.
China blamed for Canada’s multimillion-dollar coronavirus vaccine deal collapse The pandemic has devastated the niche trade, however, in another example of the virus’s disruption to the global food and agriculture supply chain.