GUATEMALAN cardamom prices have advanced strongly in recent weeks as the market reaches the tail end of availability from the 2009/10 crop, which was a small one anyway. In the week ending May 28, European traders quoted Guatemalan bold green cardamom of around 8mm size as rallying to $28,000 a tonne cif main European ports compared with $27,000 a tonne a week earlier. Mixed yellow qualities (MYQs) of minimum 360 g a litre were said to be at $20,000 a tonne cif from $19,000 a tonne earlier. One Rotterdam trader indicated offers on these quality grades of MYQ's as being as high as $22,000 a tonne cif... Read More