This year companies from Peru and Colombia joined forces in a collective Andean Ingredients pavilion at Hi Europe & Ni, the largest European exhibition for healthy and natural ingredients . For the first time visitors can find a range of innovative, functional and healthy ingredients from one of the world´s regions with the highest biodiversity.  In…

By Saumu Mwalimu (THE CITIZEN) Dar es Salaam — Vanilla farming is less popular in Tanzania but farmers from regions like Kagera, Morogoro and Kilimanjaro have struck gold in its cultivation. Dried vanilla beans are used in food, beverages and fragrances are sold at between Sh10,000 and Sh15,000 a kilo. Companies such as Natural Extractive…

By Alawi Masare (THE CITIZEN) Dar es Salaam — Tanzania has indicative prices for cotton, cashew nuts, and fuel but for cloves the pricing mechanism is different. While the prices of fuel and the traditional crops are set by regulatory authorities, for cloves, the marketing body does it instead. The spice – produced in Zanzibar…

Kochi, October 18:   Spot pepper markets on Tuesday showed a steady trend on sluggish activities. Tamil Nadu dealers were buying Idukki pepper at ₹685-690 a kg directly from the farm gate, market sources told Business Line. Major north Indian centres such as Mumbai and Delhi are flooded with pepper imported from Sri Lanka and Vietnam,…

ZURICH, SWITZERLAND, and PARIS — A new project seeks to diversify crops and stabilize revenues of vanilla farmers in Madagascar by introducing cocoa farming. Zurich-based Barry Callebaut, a producer of chocolate and cocoa, and Paris-based Prova, a manufacturer of vanilla extracts and flavors, joined forces to launch the project. Madagascar, with 80,000 producers, is the…