Archive for September, 2005

INDIA’S Planning Commission has cleared a proposal to extend an export subsidy for pepper and cardamom in a bid to increase exports on the one hand and to arrest the decline in domestic prices of these commodities on the other. Sources within the ministry of commerce indicated that the necessary notification to this effect would […]

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INDIAN cardamom production has been projected to rise by between 15% and 20% in the current fiscal year and may breach the 12,000tonne mark. According to latest estimates from the country’s Spices Board, production in 2005/06 will total about 11,000 tonnes up from 9,000 to 9,500 tonnes in 2004/05. However, local sources said that this […]

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