Indonesian market report 4 july to 9 july

The Production had picked up and the market is getting active. There where more collectors in the market and the number of farmers had also increased.

The local prices at Padang and Medan which the exporters are quoting are 17,000 to 18,000 levels.

Most of the exporters are active in the market

july bringing hope to farmers

" its all bad news for us farmers since last December, a lot of my friends where disappointed and most of them stopped working. I was still sticking on to gambier production because I do not know any other work other than this. My 14 year old son start working and that was an additional income for my family, actually that help us to survive in this hard times

whenever collectors come they only offer lower price, week after week it make us feel that we are wasting our efforts, since June 15th there was no price drop.

July the prices are picking up, and its bringing hope for us poor people and an appreciation for our hard work and for a long wait"

Mr Mardi (farmer)

Indonesian Market report 27 june - 2 july 2011

Production of Gambier had still not picked up this week. Collection markets where without much sellers.
Lumpang and count grades where of high demand.

Officers from the Government of Padang , Ministry of Agriculture had visited some of the gambier growing villages on Monday 27th june. This was a follow up on some of the local news paper report on studying regarding the less production of the gambier crop.

The price in turn had been in an uptrend. The current local prices had turned up to idr 16000 to idr 17000 per kg.