INDIAN cardamom growing areas have received good rains and the crop is expected to be good in the forthcoming 2009/10 season. The new season starts on August 1 and and picking of the new crop might begin from mid-August. Meannwhile, current crop arrivals at the auctions held in Kerala and Tamil Nadu are of inferior […]
TOTAL spice exports from India in the first two months of the new 2009/10 season fell 23% in volume terms and 10% in value on a year-on-year basis. The Indian Spice Board said in a report that between April and May 2009, a total quantity of 82,435 tonnes of spices was shipped, compared with 106,375 […]
GUATEMALA appears to have completely sold out of bold green cardamoms and other grades are running very tight so prices are expected to remain prone to upward pressure for the foreseeable future. Andrew Barker, managing director of PBAbrokerage, told The Public Ledger that Guatemala has run out of cardamoms of the full green colour favoured […]