Crop: People of Nimshong village in Korphu, Trongsa have started growing cardamom having understood its commercial value of the crop. Only villagers of Nabji and Korphu used to grow cardamom ...
Cardamom cultivation gained significant momentum in the southern gewogs of Haa: Sangbaykha and Gakiling. Almost every household today grows the crop. However, the farmers are trying to explore ...
Black cardamom was first planted in the Hoang Lien Mountains in the 1990s as a replacement for opium, a banned crop that once helped prop up Indochina’s colonial economy. The national park ...
Cardamom production is done at a high cost, but its value in the market has been declining, forcing farmers to shift to other crops. Thomas has found a way to produce them organically. But this is ...
Green cardamom is the third most expensive spice in the world, after saffron and vanilla. Just 100 grams of the spice can cost about $9. That's about $90 for a kilogram. But getting that little ...
In picturesque Mavadi, a village in the hilly district of Idukki, the cardamom bowl of India in southern Kerala state, Thomas Kollikolavil is a worried man. The 73-year-old Catholic cardamom farmer ...
This will help India export more cardamom ahead of the Ramadan festival by February 2025. However, he said the Indian crop is also down 50 per cent this season. As old crop arrivals should be ...