INDIA exported a lower volume of spices from April to August compared with the same period last year, but also saw its earnings from spice exports rise in the same period. The volume of spices exported dropped 3% to 140,231 tonnes compared with 143,880 tonnes in the same period of last year, according to the […]
INDIA’S Spices Board has turned down a demand by spice traders in the Agricultural Produce Market Committee (APMC) for an immediate ban on futures trading of cumin seed, turmeric, chilli, cardamom, sesame seed and black pepper. Representatives of the APMC spice traders alleged that the purpose of futures trading was not being served as it […]
THE Indian Spices Board is sending a two-man delegation to Guatemala to study the country’s cardamom crop. According to marketing director S Kannan, the Indian Spices Board is in talks with local authorities to send a scientist and an economist to the country soon. This echoes a trip by Indian officials to Madagascar to study […]
INDIAN cardamom growers in Kerala and Tamil Nadu have floated South India Green Cardamom Company, which will take up direct marketing of the produce both within the country and overseas. Green Cardamom, which is registered under the companies act and promoted by 50 planters, will start its first trial retail marketing in Madurai next month, […]