Tanzania & Zanzibar Spice Guide
Tanzania — and Zanzibar in particular — has a centuries-long reputation as a spice origin. Cloves, vanilla and cardamom each have a dedicated market portal within the Commodities.tz network; this page is the broader spice-industry index, covering the wider portfolio grown and traded in Tanzania.
Dedicated commodity portals
Vanilla
Tanzania Vanilla Market & Sourcing
clove.tzClove
Tanzania & Zanzibar Clove Market
cardamom.tzCardamom
Tanzania Cardamom Market
Sourced profiles
Individual spices with enough genuine, sourced, Tanzania-specific material to justify a real profile — never a blended "spices price."
Cinnamon
Growing regions, trade data and sourcing considerations.
Black Pepper
Growing regions, trade data and sourcing considerations.
Ginger
Growing regions, trade data and sourcing considerations.
Not yet published
Grown in Tanzania, but Phase 4 research found their available data inseparably bundled with other items (see our methodology) with no way to isolate a Tanzania-specific, single-spice figure — we would rather leave these unpublished than publish a profile built on numbers that aren't really theirs.
Nutmeg
No disaggregated Tanzania-specific data found yet.
Turmeric
No disaggregated Tanzania-specific data found yet.
Suppliers
East Africa Agro Supply
Bulk agricultural commodity exporter offering cashew nuts, coffee and spices, FOB Dar es Salaam. According to…
Viridium Tanzania Limited
Producer/exporter of gourmet and extract-grade vanilla beans, powder and cuts, plus cardamom, clove, chili and cinnamon.…
Zanj Spice Limited (1001 Organic)
Zanzibar spice production and trading company (established 2012) supervising the full chain from partner farms to…
Zanzibar State Trading Corporation (ZSTC)
Government parastatal (established as a state trading body in the 1960s) holding the legal monopoly on…