Madagascar sets the pace on cloves offers

MADAGASCAR’S new crop cloves prices have opened very high as it becomes increasingly clear that output will be substantially down this year. Earlier forecasts had ranged from 4,000 tonnes at the lowest end of the scale up to 7,000 tonnes at best. Even the latter figure would be well short of Madagascar’s normal crop range […]

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Cloves importers struggle to cover needs

GLOBAL cloves supplies are running drastically short as there are very few quantities of 2008 crop material left in Madagascar to tide the market over until the new crop arrives later this year…READ MORE

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