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WPB Week #07/17, 13-17 February 2017

it.assistant@ipcnet.org 17 Feb 2017 1

Pepper price in India and Vietnam has been reported to decrease during the week under review, while in other origins, prices were reported stable. The decline of prices in Vietnam and India is understood as the arrival of new materials from the current harvest take place in India to the market is now increasing. In Vietnam pepper harvest has also started. There have been reports that output of this year harvest would be more or less the same as last year output. Meanwhile production of pepper in Indonesia for this year harvest is anticipated to be lower than estimated earlier, mainly due to unfavourable weather condition. Prolonged wet weather with high intensity of rainfall has resulted less flowering. Pepper price in Lampung and Bangka were reported to remain stable. Stable price was also reported in Sri Lanka.

IMPORT OF PEPPER BY FRANCE:
Import of pepper into France, one of the main important consuming countries of pepper in Europe increased annually from around 8,000 Mt in 2012 to around 10,200 Mt in 2015 and is estimated a volume of more than 11,000 Mt has been imported into France in 2016.

During January-November 2016, import of pepper by France has reached 10,513 Mt comprising of 7,724 Mt of whole pepper and 2,789 Mt of ground pepper, showing an increase of around 12% as against 9,417 Mt (6,923 Mt of whole and 2,494 Mt of ground pepper) in the same period of 2015. Up to December 2016, import of France is estimated to cross 11,000 Mt. Brazil, Vietnam and Indonesia were traditionally the main sources of pepper for France. They together supplied more than 65% of pepper into France. During January-November 2016 Vietnam was the most important source of pepper for France, supplying 28% followed by Brazil (21%) and Indonesia (18%). This was possible, since production of Vietnam increased during the year; while in Brazil and Indonesia decreased. Germany also supplied significant quantity, mostly ground pepper to France.

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