Our study on European market opportunities for traditional floating rice from Vietnam was published some time ago by commissioner CBI. Floating rice is adapted to changing water tables and can therefore be part of adaptation strategies for climate change. Whereas export opportunities are limited, the product has a traditional market domestically.
The CBI factsheet describes the European market for amaranth seeds, the little sister of quinoa in the family of healthy pseudo grains. Amaranth imports are estimated at 5775 tons in 2014, up from about 4500 tons in 2013. This is quite a substantial volume compared to about 15000 tons of quinoa imports in 2014. Production of amaranth, which … Read more
The CBI factsheet published in December 2015 gives a bird’s eye view of the European quinoa market and opportunities for exporters. Based on trade data until May 2015, the study suggests that import growth is flattening out and consumption and imports are spreading from early adopters to other European countries. The claim that consumption may … Read more
Bolhispania: high quality hearts of palm from Bolivia; a case study of export promotion Bolhispania participated in CBI’s Export Coaching Programme Natural Ingredients for Food, Cosmetics and Pharmaceuticals 2010 – 2015. This programme assisted Bolivian companies in their start-up phase of exporting their products to Europe. In 2014, the total export volume of Bolhispania to … Read more
The Nicaraguan organic peanut and sesame exporter COPROEXNIC made a business tour in Germany and the Netherlands, organized by Mercadero. Before coming to Europe, the representative of COPROEXNIC received five skype training sessions on marketing of peanuts and sesame in Europe. The company met 16 new potential buyers. Agreements were made to send samples, quotations … Read more
Quinoa was spotted in the reclaimed land of the Dutch Flevo Polder: another sign that quinoa is moving out of the original production zone of the Andes mountains. The Flevo Polder is a highly productive agricultural area with a mathematical lay-out, reclaimed from the sea in the 1950s and 1960s. Photos courtesy of Frank Tel … Read more
Chia exports to the European Union increased 161% in June 2014 to May 2015 compared to a year before. This tremendous increase is even higher than the growth of 130% in the calendar year 2014 compared to a year earlier. In January 2013 the European Union approved an extension of the use of chia under … Read more
In the past year (2014/2015) the chia market has cooled down substantially, as a result of a record production in 2014. In Bolivia, for example, the area sown in 2014 increased to 80000 hectares, from 50000 hectares in 2013 (CBI 2014)*. Prices to farmers have become very low, with conventional chia of unspecified quality changing … Read more
Recent developments have diminished the relevance of the Challapata market for the export prices of quinoa. At Mercadero we have therefore decided to discontinue the Challapata price service, following the suggestion of our informants. There are two main reasons for this: both quality and price of quinoa traded at Challapata are no longer representative for … Read more
Growth of EU quinoa imports from Peru, Bolivia and Ecuador accelerated to 57% in January-May 2015 compared to the same period in 2014. In January- May 2014 imports grew at ‘only’ 32% compared to a year before. In 2014 as a whole the import volume from these three countries was 14,468 MT, which constituted an … Read more