News from Tanzania: Zanzibar gets a good clove harvest

  Minister of Trade, Industry, and Marketing, Mr Nassor Ahmed Mazrui, said 
"We managed to buy 4,687 tonnes of cloves from farmers by last Monday and farmers got more than 70bn/-. Our estimate was to buy 3,000 tonnes,"
This time Tanzanian government decided to combat smuggling with higher prices for cloves, up to 15 000 of Tanzanian shillings per kg, which is about $8.5-9 US dollars. That is about  half of what the government will get by selling it overseas.
"But we need to have strategies to improve production at 10,000 tonnes in the near future,", according to Mr Mazrui.
These strategies would include  making a census of all existing clove trees and  planting at least 500 000 new trees annually.

In case you didn't know , clove production is almost entirely  under the state control in Tanzania.