What is fresh ginger root's country of origin?

[nemo]

Was reading a thread on Home Cooking about ginger spread, making your own. I use fresh ginger quite often. I did a quick Google and kept coming up with China as the major source. Is this true?

[KiltedCook]

Ginger can be grown anywhere it's hot and humid, like here on the Gulf Coast of Florida.

[Melanie Wong]

There's some organic ginger grown in Calif's Central Valley (STockton, Fresno, Modesto, etc.)

[Whippet]

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[h2Bn]

When I purchase ginger root from Publix it is always imported from Central America. One night my daughter remembered--at 10 pm--that she needed ginger for her high school culinary class the next morning. I had no choice but to go to the 24-hr Super Walmart--a store I was morally opposed to patronizing.

Well, that store has the BEST ginger I've ever bought ANYWHERE. It's from China,and the roots are large, juicy and potent.

[paulj]

The numbers reported in the Wiki article are:
"India, with over 30% of the global share, now leads in global production of ginger, replacing China, which has slipped to the second position (~20.5%), followed by Indonesia(~12.7%), Nepal(~11.5%) and Nigeria(~10%)."

However those numbers don't indicate how much is sold fresh, as opposed to dried, ground, candied, etc.

[jgg13]

which wiki? do you mean wikipedia? wikipedia isn't "the wiki", it is *a* wiki.

[almansa]

Probably. Most garlic comes from China, too. And when you cook a chicken, while it may have been born and raised in California, it was likely portioned in China, then shipped back here.

[1sweetpea]

I believe most ginger sold in North America comes from China, but I once saw a Food Network (Canada) show that had the host travelling to Australia to investigate produce. He visited a farm that grows some awesome looking ginger, but I doubt any of it is being sold on this side of the ocean.