Webinar on cardamom calls for sustainable production of spices by 2025

Panelists at a webinar on National Sustainable Spice Programme (NSSP) on Cardamom highlighted the will need for making twenty five for each cent of spices developed in India sustainable by 2025.

Toward attaining this objective, they urged the active involvement of all the stakeholders in the NSSP initiative. The webinar was executed as element of the start of NSSP for cardamom for the benefit of farmers and other stakeholders of the cardamom sector.

D Sathiyan, Secretary, Spices Board, pointed out the worries faced in the cardamom sector and the will need for addressing the troubles of top quality and food stuff safety throughout the overall spices provide chain, starting up from the cultivation phase. The emphasis on food stuff safety, top quality and sustainability is the will need of the hour to retain the country’s dominant place in the traditional export marketplaces, though growing the market place base to include new marketplaces for Indian spices, he reported.

Spices Board, in collaboration with Planet Spice Organization – the complex arm of All India Spices Exporters Discussion board, IDH (The Sustainable Trade Initiative) and GIZ World Venture (Personal Business Action for Biodiversity) has carried out NSSP initiative on a pan-India foundation masking five key spice crops of India particularly cardamom, pepper, chilli, cumin and turmeric.

Support to farmers

NSSP initiative seeks to support the farmers in increasing the top quality of their spice deliver by addressing the top quality, food stuff safety, and sustainability and biodiversity concerns in the provide chain to guarantee superior price realisation for farmers and to lead to growing the exports.

The individuals were being enlightened on the prospects and opportunity for adopting bio-range helpful production as perfectly as other sustainable tactics throughout the overall provide chain of tiny cardamom. The various initiatives taken by the Spices Board in collaboration with the marketplace were being offered to the stakeholders.

The exporter-individuals reiterated their dedication to procuring sustainably produced cardamom at a top quality price which would aid to further more endorse exports of tiny cardamom, in addition to making certain remunerative returns to the cardamom growers.

About 160 individuals, comprising cardamom farmers from Kerala, Karnataka and Tamil Nadu, exporters, traders, officials from Spices Board, Indian Institute of Spices Analysis (IISR), attended the webinar, which concentrated on export prospects, top quality and food stuff safety troubles in cultivation of cardamom and the measures essential to endorse sustainable production.