INDIAN cardamom growers are fearful that production might lag behind demand by up to 25% this season due to expectations of a surprise surge in overseas orders. At the beginning of the cardamom season in September, the Spices Board of India (SBI) predicted that the country's output would rise by 5% from the previous year. However, cardamom planters said that stocks were currently about 25% short of what the market needed... Read More