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 stated that the situation had enabled Muheza spice farmers to improve product quality to meet consumer needs, and linking them to high-value markets.
"Targeting the high-value market also include activities that add value to the products, particularly drying, packaging, sorting, grading, storage," he said.
The global clove market analysis data for 2023 show that the approximate price range for Tanzania cloves is between US$7.77 and US$5.29 kilogram or between US$3.52 and US$2.4 per pound(lb).
The price in Tanzanian shilling is 18,064.5/- per kilogram.
The average price for a tonne is US$7,767.73 in Mwanza and Dar es Salaam while past three years the total values in export for cloves in Tanzania were US$8.1 million.
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