Areca nuts supply from Sumatra, Indonesia is running low

The Areca nuts supply in Sumatra is running low and the price started to increase. Current farmgate and trader prices already increased by 10-12% in the last 3-4 weeks. The trader in Jambi provinces, the main producing area of the areca nuts in Indonesia, is started to source the products from the neighboring provinces to fulfill their contract to their buyers, mainly to the South Asia market.