FAO locust warning will put spotlight on Madagascar cloves crop

INTERNATIONAL cloves dealers are likely to be closely monitoring developments in Madagascar over the coming weeks following a warning from the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation that the country’s crops are at risk of a significant plague of locusts. The FAO has called for action before the rainy season exacerbates the problem…READ MORE

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Clove oil price rockets on dangerously thin supply

CLOVE leaf oil from Madagascar is becoming dangerously short and traders are beginning to fear that supplies may yet run out altogether, pushing prices to well above the 20-year highs they are currently scaling. Madagascar’s cloves prices started climbing in June when it became increasingly difficult to obtain any good quality produce from the 2009 […]

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