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WPB Week #14/17, 03-07 April 2017

it.assistant@ipcnet.org 07 Apr 2017 9

The market remained calm and prices were reported to have stable during the week under review, except local price of black pepper in Kuching, Malaysia. In Vietnam, the market was moving slowly, due to low overseas demand and on the other side low willingness of producers and collectors to sell at current low levels.

From Bangka it was reported the market was very quiet, since stock at farms and collectors has exhausted. It was very difficult to get row material in local market. Since low overseas demand however, white pepper price prevailed during the week in Bangka was unchanged at the level of IDR 110,000 per Kg locally. New material is only expected to be available in June/July.

Production of pepper from upcoming crop in Bangka is anticipated to be significantly lower from last year. It was observed that only few spike seen in each branch of pepper vine in Bangka and Belitung, the main white pepper growing areas in Indonesia. This was due to prolonged wet weather and too high rainfall during this crop season. This situation is also reported in Lampung and other areas in Indonesia.

Performance of pepper plants of this year crop season in Belitung. The around 40 ha pepper garden in Belitung is considered to be the good and well maintained garden in Bangka Belitung.

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