THE Indian Spices Board has suggested a series of measures to enhance the quality of the country’s nutmeg and mace in order to better meet the strict regulations imposed by major nutmeg importers such as the EU. The board also plans to position nutmeg as a purely organic crop and would undertake campaigns to promote […]
THE Spices Board of India has said that organic spice cultivation would be a priority in the 12th Five Year Plan programmes to be submitted to the government. Spices Board chairman A Jayathilak said the spices body will set up a laboratory for testing organic input and output at the Indian Cardamom Research Institute in […]
INDIA’S spices exports rose by 21% to Rs18.85bn ($433.2m) in the first quarter of the fiscal year due to better prices. Indeed, exports by volume for the quarter were just 116,000 tonnes, a 26% fall from 157,000 tonnes in the April to June period last year, according to the data released by the Spices Board. […]
AN uptick in Japan’s chilli, coriander and turmeric purchases were behind an overall rise in demand for foreign spices in the first half of the year. Total imports of all spices increased by 3% to 56,680 tonnes in the first half of 2011, but fell short of the higher 2009 level for the six-month period […]