India’s new cardamom crop has started and is expected to be of a decent size after favourable levels of rainfall. Mumbai-based Emperor Akbar Green Cardamoms said in a June 26 market report: “There has been excellent rainfall in the plantations with good climatic conditions for cardamom.” The company noted that currently, the new crop consisted […]
Guatemala recorded a strong first quarter of the year on cardamom exports, with overall shipments 14.5% ahead of those achieved in the same period of 2012. In all, the country shipped a total of 13,384 tonnes of cardamom to global destinations between January and March 2013 compared with 12,077 tonnes in the first quarter of […]
If you turn off the main road from the city of Cobán and drive down a dirt road, you will come across a magical green kingdom. Tall bushes of coffee and cardamom grow on the pine-topped hills that recede into the distance. But it is a cursed kingdom. The coffee and cardamom bushes in this […]
SINCE taking over as chairman of the Indian Spices Board in early July 2011, A Jayathilak, a former medico-turned Indian Administrative Services (IAS) officer, has been able to maintain the high growth rate that Indian spice exports have demonstrated over the past six years. Moreover, the value of Indian spice exports for the financial year […]
HASSAD Food Company, the agricultural investment arm of Qatar’s sovereign wealth fund, plans to invest $500m in India after buying Bush Foods Overseas. Nasser Mohammad al-Hajri, chairman of Hassad Food Company, said the investment will be in the production of rice, coffee, cardamom and “ready-made foods”. Hassad said on April 3 that it had agreed […]