Price Of Mansampalang/cassava

[Nepal4me]

I have never found a site where I can get the daily or weekly or periodic price level of Cassava.

Anybody have a site to get this info?

Thanks........

[pete_r]

For the roots, prices are displayed at the factory gate and vary between different regions (currently around 2000 Bahts/ton). I don't know if there is a website tracking these.

For the starch, the Thai Tapioca Starch Association website has weekly updates:

http://www.thaitapiocastarch.org/

They also have historical data in their "market and statistic" section.

[Nepal4me]

For the roots, prices are displayed at the factory gate and vary between different regions (currently around 2000 Bahts/ton). I don't know if there is a website tracking these.

For the starch, the Thai Tapioca Starch Association website has weekly updates:

http://www.thaitapiocastarch.org/

They also have historical data in their "market and statistic" section.

Thanks for the link. I can see the price of Tapioca has gone from 360USD/MT to 420USD/MT over 7 weeks. That's a 17% increase.

Would you know if the price of the roots track the price of the Tapioca. i.e. would the price of the roots have increased by 17% over that period?

[pete_r]

I'd say that the increase in price of the tapioca starch is currently following that of the roots, which have more or less doubled since late 2006, from 1000 Bahts/ton to 2000-2200 Bahts/ton today.

Cassava attracts a lot of interest at the moment, I expect prices to rise still a bit more in the next year or two, until supply catches up with demand. Unless demand continues to increase as well, which may happen given the bio-ethanol factories scheduled to start operating in the coming 2-3 years.