GUATEMALAN mixed yellow quality (MYQ) cardamom has fallen sharply in price over the last few months as exporters have been trying to clear stocks of these grades ahead of the start of the 2011/12 crop later this year, but scarce supply is keeping other grades stable to firm in price. On July 1, Andrew Barker, […]
GUATEMALA recorded a good start to cardamom shipments over the first three months of this year, but European dealers have cautioned that it is too early to draw any firm conclusions from this. Official data shows that the South American country shipped a total of 8,103 tonnes to global destinations between January and March 2011, […]
GUATEMALAN mixed yellow quality (MYQ) cardamom has fallen sharply in price over the last few months as exporters have been trying to clear stocks of these grades ahead of the start of the 2011/12 crop later this year, but scarce supply is keeping other grades stable to firm in price. On July 1, Andrew Barker, […]
SCIENTISTS in India are convinced that the country’s cardamom yields have benefited from the effects of global warming in recent years. According to a scientific study in the Journal of Climatic Change, the increase in temperature in the aptly-named Cardamom Hills area has resulted in a significant advance in cardamom yield. The Cardamom Hills are […]
SCIENTISTS in India are convinced that the country’s cardamom yields have benefited from the effects of global warming in recent years. According to a scientific study report published in the Journal of Climatic Change, the increase in temperature in the aptly-named Cardamom Hills area has resulted in a significant advance in cardamom yield. The Cardamom […]
INDIA’S spice shipments broke the export target and previous record in 2010/11 and the country’s Spices Board believes this is the foundation for even stronger growth in the future. A new record for exports in the year ending March was set at 525,750 tonnes, a near-5% climb from the previous year’s 502,750 tonnes. By value, […]
INDIA’S spices exports broke the export target and previous record in 2010/11 and the country’s Spices Board believes this is the foundation for even stronger growth in the future. A new record for exports in the year ending March was set at 525,750 tonnes, a near-5% climb from the previous year’s 502,750 tonnes. By value, […]
GUATEMALAN cardamom farmers are releasing new crop material to the market very slowly, which has given the misleading impression that global output might be low this year when latest indications suggest there should be reasonable level of overall availability. Indian media reports have remarked on the anomaly that Indian cardamom prices have been plummeting in […]
GUATEMALAN cardamom farmers are releasing new crop material to the market very slowly, which has given the misleading impression that global output might be low this year when latest indications suggest there should be reasonable level of overall availability. Indian media reports have remarked on the anomaly that Indian cardamom prices have been plummeting in […]
ON the Friday afternoon that The Public Ledger spoke with Gerwald Kras of the Rotterdam office of pepper processor Olam International, something odd had happened that epitomised the shifting power in many agricultural commodities. “It’s very strange. Vietnam is not even a seller today,” he said. “Indian prices moved up by 3% on the exchange […]