THE Indian Spices Board (ISB) has formulated a training programme to create a group of experts that are fully conversant in good agricultural practices for cultivating spices. Spices covered by the training will include vanilla, cardamom, chilli, pepper, ginger, turmeric, herbal spices, seed spices and tree spices. The latest plan is said to be similar […]
CARDAMOM is facing one of its worst periods of the last decade, with prices plummeting to rock bottom levels due to rising yields and higher production in the world’s top producing nations. According to Indian trade sources, there has been a rise in yield per hectare and excess production in India’s main competitor, Guatemala. There […]
FARMERS in the Idukki district of India are pressing ahead with plans to set up a new cardamom and pepper processing and extraction unit in Ramakkalmedu at a cost of around Rs50m ($1.12m). According to leading officials of the Indian Organic Spices Farmers Producer Company, more than 50 spice growers in the district have joined […]
GROWING demand and speculative buying of cardamom in the Middle East saw Guatemala raise its exports of the spice in 2005. Guatemala, by far the world’s leading exporter of cardamom, exported 31,643 tonnes of the spice in 2005, 11% more than the 28,569 tonnes sold abroad in 2004. This also represents good growth from 2003’s […]
GUATEMALAN cardamom prices are expected to remain on the weak side for at least the next two to three months due to an anticipated decent sized crop and sluggish demand. Rodolfo Rivera, director of Guatemalan exporter Excard, told The Public Ledger the 2005/06 crop is likely to come in at around 32,500 tonnes, together with […]