A new bi-monthly export bulletin is being produced by PIRSA Market Intelligence. It includes current figures on South Australian food sector exports and the contribution food makes to the state's total exports. Each edition will focus on an export related topic.
Features the seafood sector and highlights that South Australia is a major seafood exporter accounting for 34% of all of Australia’s seafood exports. SA's major seafood export products and markets are highlighted: bluefin tuna, lobsters and abalone being sold in Japan and Hong Kong, while emerging seafood export products fish, oysters and mussels are being sold to a range of markets in Europe, Hong Kong and Singapore.
Food Export Bulletin - Issue 1, September 2009 (pdf, 605kb)
Features the horticulture sector and shows that South Australia is a major food sector in the State but relatively small as an exporting industry. In 2008/09 just 14% of the value of SA horticulture products came from sales to export markets. Citrus and almonds are the largest exported products and for each of these industries approximately half of all sales are to export markets.
Food Export Bulletin - Issue 2, November 2009 (pdf, 175kb)
Japan, USA and Hong Kong are South Australia’s major markets for South Australian food exports according to the latest bi-monthly export bulletin produced by PIRSA’s Market Intelligence Unit. The bulletin highlights that SA exports food to a diverse range of markets, with more than 50 countries buying over $1 million worth of SA food in the last year. Japan is the largest market for SA food exports, with the total remaining steady for each of the last three years at approximately $380 million and Bluefin Tuna remaining as the largest food export to Japan. USA has increased each of the last five years, nearly doubling to $280 million in 2008/09, a growth driven almost entirely by the increasing value in the exports of meat, particularly lamb. And Hong Kong is the third largest market with seafood (lobster and abalone) accounting for much of export total along with meat and fruit.
Food Export Bulletin - Issue 3, January 2010 (pdf, 315kb)