The price of cardamom hit a record 7,000 per kg due to a shortfall in monsoon rains The price of cardamom hit a record 7,000 per kg due to a shortfall in monsoon rains The maximum and average ...

KOCHI: After unearthing a major financial fraud committed by an auctioneer, the Spices Board has urged the cardamom growers to report discrepancies, if any, in payment related to cardamom sold ...

Damage to the standing cardamom crop in Kerala has resulted in price of the commodity hitting an all-time high of nearly Rs 4,500 per kg. In Bengaluru markets, 100gm of the spice could cost ...

The Kerala government’s decision to include cardamom in the food kits supplied through public distribution system (PDS) in the Onam season has brought some relief to the crisis-hit cardamom sector.

The proclamation, issued on Malayalam Era 997, Medam 15 (April 28, 1882), that turns 200 years now entrusted workers from Tamil Nadu with harvesting cardamom, considering its importance as a ...

Seed capsules of Elettaria cardamomum provide the commercial green cardamom. The genus name is based on this spice’s old Malayalam name, ‘elletari,’ as used by Hendrik van Rheede in his 17th ...

Inclement weather accompanied by heavy rains and wind have affected cardamom plantations in Kerala’s Idukki district, a major growing region. The farming community says the existing weather ...

K OCHI: The state government has allocated Rs 10 crore as compensation for cardamom farmers in Idukki who suffered crop loss due to the severe drought last year. The fund has been allocated from ...

But, Selvakumari S, 28, herself a plantation worker and the daughter of a cardamom plantation worker ... Though her inability to speak in Malayalam resulted in a section of her college ...