INTERNATIONAL pepper prices escalated even higher in the week to November 5 on increasingly tight stocks and fears that supply looks set to remain limited in 2011. In the meantime, demand had been fairly constant, particularly now that India were purchasing much more pepper than in the past…READ MORE
INDIAN pepper prices have shown a continued firm trend in the past week due to strong domestic demand and anticipated good overseas buying interest. The robust domestic demand for the winter and the expectation of an increase in export offtake might keep prices on the ascendancy…READ MORE
In the meantime, Indian pepper prices had fallen quite substantially in recent weeks, reaching around Rs186 ($4.18) a kg on October 8 from Rs217 a kg a few weeks earlier. That drop was partly offset by a much stronger rupee…READ MORE
WORLD pepper prices have shown a fluctuating tendency of late, which has included some short-term weakness due to the seasonal slow down in demand. The main falls he had seen were in Indian and Indonesian values for shipment. There had also been a weaker tone…READ MORE
INDIAN pepper prices stayed high over the past week on strong internal demand against low availability. Pepper at the physical counter traded firm and moved in…READ MORE
INTERNATIONAL pepper prices have seen a weaker tone of late which looks set to continue for a while as buyers are hesitant about covering too far forward, before underlying strong fundamentals send the market higher again over the second half of this year. Indian black pepper had declined to Rs150 ($3.32) per kg from Rs157 […]
There is declining yield in pepper productivity in India mainly due to increasing average age of vines, low fertility of soil due to continuous cultivation and higher incidence of disease…READ MORE
PEPPER oil prices have enjoyed a bullish run over the past twelve months, really ramping up the increases over the last four months of 2009, but while things have eased a little of late there is still no big slide on the horizon. While the main crop from India is said to be marginally higher […]
THE Indian pepper market has been highly volatile on alternate bearish and bullish activities in futures, but continued a slow decline despite a visible squeeze in the supply of new and old pepper. On the export front, movements overseas have remained sluggish throughout the year due to premium prices of Indian produce…READ MORE
INDIA’S pepper output in 2010 is expected to be only marginally higher than that of last year, but prices are unlikely to fall sharply in the coming months due to low carryover stocks, according to a Reuters poll of eight traders, exporters and analysts…READ MORE