Tanzania: Farmers smile as prices and demands for spices gain

Farmers have therefore thanked President Samia Suluhu Hassan for her ongoing consolidating economic diplomacy with different countries, which has resulted into securing new markets for spices and expanding existing ones. Speaking with this paper on behalf of spice farmers, Muheza spices small scale growers’ chairman Juma Shabani said that since February this year there has been an increased demand for spices from Dar es Salaam, by both domestic and export markets. "Last year we depended to sell our products to Nairobi and Mombasa in Kenya whereby they purchased clove 10,000/- per kilo, cinnamon at 8,000/- while black pepper we sold 5,000/- per kilo, but now, one kilo of clove is now sold 15,000/-, cinnamon sold between 10,000/- to 12,000/- while black pepper is now sold up to 7,000/- per kilo," he said. He said; "Growers are now smiling as merchants from Somalia, Indonesia, Arab and China are flocking to purchase spices and there is no need to export again to Kenya". He further ...