Spices insights

Core Tip: Nepal's "Newspaper" reported on February 12: According to the statistics of the Customs Bureau, in the first half of this fiscal year, Nepal's cardamom exports dropped sharply to 2,674 tons, a decrease of about 192 tons compared with last year, a decrease of 7%. However, due to the 25% year-on-year increase in prices, export revenue still increased significantly, and the export value increased from 3.9 billion rupees in the same period last year to 4.56 billion rupees in the first half of this fiscal year, a year-on-year increase of 17%.

(Agraria.pe) In January 2025, Peruvian turmeric exports totaled 264 tons, showing an increase of 70% compared to the 155 tons shipped in the same month of the previous year.

In 2024, the total cinnamon area in Lao Cai province will reach 60,800 hectares; over 157,000 tons of dried cinnamon branches, leaves, and bark, 58,805 cubic meters of cinnamon wood, and 465 tons of essential oil will be extracted. Basically, the province's cinnamon growing areas will produce according to safe and organic standards, with stable purchasing prices. In 2025, Lao Cai strives to have more than 5,000 hectares of cinnamon meeting organic standards by the end of the year. To achieve this goal, since the beginning of the year, Lao Cai has strengthened propaganda, mobilization, and guidance for people to plant, care for, develop, and form organic cinnamon growing areas in the direction of commodity production, increasing added value, and sustainable development in Bao Yen, Bao Thang, Bac Ha, and Van Ban districts. At the same time, research and apply science and technology from the seed production stage to the processing and consumption of products according to organic ...