What is the price of molluscs per kilogram/pound in Madagascar today?
The retail price range for Madagascar molluscs is between US$ 0.38 and US$ 7.57 per kilogram or between US$ 0.17 and US$ 3.43 per pound(lb). Click here to see today's exact prices of molluscs in Madagascar
The retail price range in Malagasy Ariary for molluscs is between MGA 1,699.95 and MGA 33,475.96 per kilogram or between MGA 770.95 and MGA 15,181.84 per pound(lb) in Antananarivo and Toamasina.
Wholesale prices
In 2024, the approximate wholesale price range for Madagascar molluscs is between US$ 0.27 and US$ 5.30 per kilogram or between US$ 0.12 and US$ 2.40 per pound(lb).
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Madagascar Molluscs Export Prices - Historical, Trends and Prediction
The export price per kilogram of Molluscs from Madagascar over the last five years has been relatively stable. In 2017, the price was 4.26 US $ per kg, followed by 5.51 US $ per kg in 2018. In 2019, the price dropped to 4.27 US $ per kg, before increasing to 4.9 US $ per kg in 2020. The price then decreased to 4.43 US $ per kg in 2021 and 3.86 US $ per kg in 2022. Based on this trend, it is predicted that the export price per kilogram of Molluscs from Madagascar in 2023 will be around 4.30 US $ per kg and 4.23 US $ per kg in 2024.Madagascar Molluscs Import Prices - Historical, Trends and Prediction
The import price per kilogram of Molluscs into Madagascar over the last five years has been relatively stable. In 2016, the price was 5.89 US dollars per kg, followed by 4.26 US dollars per kg in 2017. In 2018, the price increased to 5.51 US dollars per kg, before dropping to 4.27 US dollars per kg in 2019. The price then rose to 4.90 US dollars per kg in 2020, before dropping to 4.43 US dollars per kg in 2021. The most recent data shows that the import price per kilogram of Molluscs into Madagascar was 3.86 US dollars per kg in 2022. Based on the data, it is likely that the import price per kilogram of Molluscs into Madagascar will remain relatively stable in the next two years. We predict that the import price per kilogram of Molluscs into Madagascar will be 4.00 US dollars per kg in 2023 and 4.10 US dollars per kg in 2024.Export values for Madagascar molluscs
The total values in export for molluscs in Madagascar were US$ 324, US$ 315, US$ 545 and US$ 879 in US dollar thousand for the years 2016, 2017, 2018 and 2019 in that order.
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Madagascar molluscs - Production, Exports, Imports, Seasons and HS Codes
The quantity of molluscs sold by Madagascar in 2020 was 146 tons. In 2019 Madagascar sold 206 tonnes of molluscs. For 2019 alone, the interest in Madagascar molluscs (seafood category) has improved, recording a change of 108.081 pc compared to the year 2018. Between 2017 and 2019, molluscs' exports grew by 178.38 pc netting the exporter US$0.88m for the year 2019. Madagascar's molluscs exports are classified as:
- Molluscs, fit for human consumption, even in shell, smoked, frozen, dried, salted or in brine (excluding oysters, scallops of the genera Pecten, Chlamys or Placopecten, mussels "Mytilus spp., Perna spp.", cuttle fish "Sepia officinalis, Rossia macrosoma, Sepiola spp.", squid "Ommastrephes spp., Loligo spp., Nototodarus spp., Sepioteuthis spp.", octopus "Octopus spp.", snails other than sea snails, clams, cockles and ark shells and abalone); frozen, dried, salted or in brine, flours, meals and pellets of molluscs, fit for human consumption (HS code 030799)
- Molluscs, even in shell, frozen (excl. oysters, scallops of the genera Pecten, Chlamys or Placopecten, mussels "Mytilus spp., Perna spp.", cuttle fish and squid, octopus "Octopus spp.", snails other than sea snails, clams, cockles and ark shells, abalone and stromboid conchs); flours, meals and pellets of molluscs, frozen, fit for human consumption (HS code 030792)
- Live, fresh, chilled, frozen, dried, salted or in brine, even smoked, aquatic invertebrates (excluding crustaceans, molluscs, sea cucumbers, sea urchins and jellyfish); all flours, meals and pellets of aquatic invertebrates other than crustaceans and molluscs, fit for human consumption (HS code 030890)
- Aquatic invertebrates, prepared or preserved (excluding smoked, crustaceans, molluscs, sea cucumbers, sea urchins and jellyfish) (HS code 160569)
- Molluscs and aquatic invertebrates, prepared or preserved (HS code 160590)
- Live, fresh or chilled molluscs, fit for human consumption, even in shell (excluding oysters, scallops of the genera Pecten, Chlamys or Placopecten, mussels "Mytilus spp., Perna spp.", cuttle fish "Sepia officinalis, Rossia macrosoma, Sepiola spp.", squid "Ommastrephes spp., Loligo spp., Nototodarus spp., Sepioteuthis spp.", octopus "Octopus spp.", snails other than sea snails, clams, cockles and ark shells and abalone); fresh or chilled flours, meals and pellets of molluscs, fit for human consumption (HS code 030791)
- Molluscs, prepared or preserved (excluding smoked, oysters, scallops, mussels, cuttle fish, squid, octopus, abalone, snails, and clams, cockles and arkshells) (HS code 160559)
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Madagascar molluscs export values
In 2019, Madagascar supplied molluscs worth 0.88m USD, an increment of 61.47% from 2018's total molluscs export of 0.545m USD. The yearly change in value of Madagascar molluscs between 2017 to 2018 was 73.016 per cent.
The annual/yearly variation in the amount of Madagascar's molluscs exports between 2017 and 2019 was 178.38 per cent in comparison to a variation of 108.081% in the period between 2018 and 2019.
Export markets for Madagascar molluscs ( in '000$ )
Madagascar brought in 6 tonnes of molluscs in 2019.