The main growing areas for African Bird’s Eye Chilies nowadays are Malawi, Uganda, Kenya and Nigeria. Lower prices the last couple of years have resulted in farmers looking for other products.

The crop yield of Muntok white pepper from Bangka and Belitung has dropped with about 50% compared to last year, perhaps even less.

Due to the coronavirus pandemic, the international exhibition has been postponed to 2022, when it will take place from 15 to 19 October.

After being the first broker in spices, herbs, edible seeds and dehydrated vegetables to achieve BRC (AA) certification. Now Van der Does will be the first broker to introduce eSigning to the spice market.

New crop staraniseeds from Vietnam is available. For this product there are 2 crops (autumn & spring); autumn crop is the far better quality in colour, size and overall appearance.

IEG Vu (formerly The Public Ledger, Foodnews and Dairy Markets) provides global business insight to track all the major developments in agricultural commodity and food ingredient markets.

Next to client visits a major part of our jobs is to visit farmers, processors and exporters in countries of origin.

For hundreds of years selecting and grading nutmeg in Indonesia was done in the same way. A small change appeared during the eighties when Japanese customers preferred the so-called sinking nutmegs.