Tap export opportunities in value-added coriander products: Spices Board Chief

To capitalise on India’s prowess in the coriander cultivation, Spices Board now appears at tapping alternatives in export of whole coriander and other worth-additional processed products and solutions from the seed-spice.

At a just lately-held webinar on “Accelerating Excellent Creation, Submit-Harvesting, Worth Addition & Export of Coriander from India”, Spices Board Chairman-cum-Secretary D Sathiyan asked business owners and exporters to harness the prospect in export of whole coriander and other processed products and solutions these types of as coriander split (daal), powder and necessary oil.

Checking out worth-additional products and solutions these types of as Indian curry powder and mouth-freshener imbued by coriander is the way forward to increase coriander usage both equally in domestic and export marketplaces. Spices Board and DBT-SABC Biotech KISAN hub — in partnership with essential stakeholders including ICAR-NRCSS, RSAMB & Kota Agri College — ready a roadmap to raise export of coriander and minimise the imports.

Advertising and marketing Rajasthan

The Hadoti area of South-East Rajasthan and Guna district of Madhya Pradesh are endowed with coriander crop. Hadoti is also considered as epicentreof production of coriander seed.

Searching at the prospective buyers, Spices Board member Anu Shree Poonia has urged to place coordinated efforts by all departments to make Rajasthan the subsequent spice producing and export hub. Notably, Ramganj APMC Mandi in Kota district is the most significant coriander current market, although the Union Ministry of Food items Processing Industries experienced just lately assigned “coriander” to the district of Kota in the checklist of One particular District One particular Item (ODOP).

Yashwant Bafna, Chairman, APMC, Ramganj Mandi and PCK Maheshwaran, a coriander exporter, touched on the difficulties confronted by processors, field and exporters and termed on the Centre and State Governments to quickly acquire actions in opposition to coriander rate manipulation brought on by futures trading either by restricting contract validity from 6 months to three months or by banning futures trading.