SPICES BOARD SPICE INDIA

1 SPICEINDIAA JOURNAL DEVOTEDTO THE PROMOTION OFINDIAN SPICE INDUSTRYIN SEPTEMBER ISSUESPICES BOARDM inistry of Commerce & IndustryGovernment of IndiaSugandha No. 2277 Palarivattom - 682 025No. 9 Vol. XXISEPTEMBER-2008 Kurian Editor :Dr. Sreekantan ThampiDeputy Director (Publicity)Editor:S. Krishnan Nair(Secretary)Editorial Advisory CommitteeS. KannanDirector (Marketing)Dr. J. ThomasDirector (Research)R. CHANDRASEKHARD irector (Development) SPICE INDIAPUBLISHED SIMULTANEOUSLY INENGLISH, MALAYALAM, TAMIL, KANNADATELUGU, HINDI AND NEPALI1 year- Rs. 50/-5 years- Rs. 200/-SUBSCRIPTION RATESS ubscription may be sent either by orBank Draft drawn in favour ofthe Secretary, SPICES BOARD , CochinThe views expressed by the contributors are notnecessarily those of the SPICES Board3 3 33 3 3 Tel:0484-2333610-616, at :Niseema Printers & Publishers, Kochi-18 Tel: 0484-24037603 3 3 SPICES PARKS BECOME FUNCTIONAL SOON4 SPICE PARKS SIGNALINGPROCESSING REVOLUTION6 FENNEL - SPICE of the Angels9 ICRI news12 ECONOMIC ANALYSIS OF SAFFRON UNDERRAINFED CONDITIONS OF KASHMIRDr.

2 S. A Shah13 BLACK PEPPER IN GUYANAB. Sasikumar17 PERFORMANCE OF CORIANDER GENOTYPES(CORIANDRUM SATIVUM LINN.)IN RAINFED VERTISOLSC. Sarada and Giridhar Kalidasu18 Discoveries Beyond the Beaches ofSRI LANKAHugh & Colleen Gantzer21 CHILLI - THE RED STAR OF INDIAN SPICESY. Saideswara Rao andRai P Joseph25 PEST PROBLEM AND THEIRECO-FRIENDLY MANAGEMENTTECHNIQUES IN CARDAMOM(ELETTARIA CARDAMOMUM (L.) MATON)Dr. D. Kumaresan28 Know the SPICE - JOSEKUTTY35 CALENDAR OF OPERATIONS FORIMPORTANT SPICES -OCTOBER 200839 SPICES STATISTICS-AUGUST 200845 September 20084 SPICE INDIASPICES PARKS BECOMEFUNCTIONAL SOONThe SPICES Parks being setup by the SPICES BOARD atGuntur in AndhraPradesh and at Sivaganga inTamil Nadu are scheduled to befully functional before the next-year end.

3 Dr. , Chief Minister ofAndhra Pradesh laid thefoundation stone for the GunturSpices Park at Edlapadu on 21stAugust 2008. The foundationstone for the Sivaganga SpicesPark was laid by , UnionFinance Minister at Kottagudion 23rd August Guntur SPICES Park,largest of all others plannedacross the country, is set up inan area of acres of landin Mydavolu andVankayalapadu villages inGuntur District, alienated to theSpices BOARD by theGovernment of AndhraPradesh. The Sivaganga SpicesPark is being set up in 74 acresof land in Kottagudi village inSivaganga district, alienated tothe SPICES BOARD by the TamilNadu Government. Shri JairamRamesh, Union Minister ofState for Commerce & Powerwas present at both SPICES Park is primarilyintended to be regional-crop-specific.

4 It integrates export-oriented production, processingand export promotion of qualityspices and also seeks toempower the SPICE farmers withbetter price realization for theirproduce. The land in the ParkHon'ble Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister, Dr. Rajasekhara Reddy delivering his speech after laying thefoundation stone for the SPICE Park in Guntur in Andhra Pradesh. To his right is seen Hon'ble UnionMinister of State for Commerce and Power, Shri Jairam 20085 SPICE INDIA will be leased to the exporterswho are registered with theSpices BOARD to set up valueadded processing andexporting units. The proximitywith the establishment of unitsin the SPICES Park enables theprocessors and exporters toforge a closer and lastingrelationship with the nearbyspice growers, go in for contractfarming and continuouslyprocure fresh raw themselves canavail of the commoninfrastructure facility forcleaning/processing and alsoset up their own processingunits in the Park.

5 The SpicesBoard will create commoninfrastructural facilities ofcleaning, grading, processing,packing, steam sterilization,warehousing, banking, customsclearance, forward marketterminal, pre-shipmentinspection, etc., in the SpicesParks. All the units in the Parkwill be certified ISO/HACCP/GMP having internationalacceptance. The Guntur Park wouldmainly focus on Chillies,Tomato chilli and Pradesh is the largestproducer of chilli in the countrywith a share of 35 percent inarea and over 45 percent inproduction. Guntur is the veryheart of INDIA 's chilli industrycontributing more than 35percent to the area under chillicrop in INDIA . During 2007-08,the chilli export from Indiareached a record level of tonnes valued at crore, which accountsfor 40 percent of the total spicesexported from the country and23 percent in value Pradesh alsocontributes 58 percent to theturmeric production in thecountry.

6 The BOARD isconsidering installation ofRadio frequency heating anddrying techniques too in theGuntur Park, which wouldHon'ble Union Finance Minister, Mr. P. Chidambaram with Hon'ble Union Minister of State for Commerceand Power, Shri Jairam Ramesh, Hon'ble Minister of Tamil Nadu, Mr . Periakaruppan with Chairmanof the SPICES BOARD , Mr VJ Kurian at the foundation stone laying function for the SPICE Park in 20086 SPICE INDIA benefit a lot of small andmedium chilli has beenoverwhelming response to theExpression of Interest invited bythe SPICES BOARD from theentrepreneurs to set up theirspice processing and value-addition units in the Sivaganga Park isdedicated to coriander,tamarind, Mundu variety ofchilli, Erode-Salem variety ofturmeric and medicinal Curry Powder is apopular generic brand name inthe international market.

7 TamilNadu contributes to 27 percentof the total exports of spicesthrough Chennai and Tuticorinports. The State is the largestproducer of clove and Tamarindas well in the 20 local spicesexporters, three leadingoverseas manufacturers of spiceproducts from Sri Lanka,Malaysia and South Africa havealso expressed their willingnessto set up their processing unitsin the Sivaganga SPICES representatives of thesecompanies participated in thefoundation stone layingceremony at Sivaganga and haddetailed discussion with theUnion Finance Minister aboutthe possibility of establishingtheir units and the ForeignDirect addition to the SpicesSPICE PARKS SIGNALINGPROCESSING REVOLUTIONP arks in these two States.

8 TheSpices BOARD is also establishingthe SPICES Quality EvaluationLaboratories at Guntur andChennai, which will beoperational in less than oneyear. The Garlic and Greenchilli-focused SPICES Park atChhindwara in MadhyaPradesh coming up in 9 acres ofland, for which the foundation-stone was laid in August lastyear by Shri Kamal Nath, UnionCommerce & IndustriesMinister will be commissionednext month. The productionand exports of quality spicesfrom the country are expectedto receive a major boost with theestablishment of a series ofSpices Parks and Indian SPICE industry isembarking upon a majorprocessing revolution to beef upthe exports of value addedspices to fetch higher unit valuerealization from exports.

9 Thechain of six SPICE parks whichthe SPICES BOARD is going to setup six different states is the firstfirm step in objective is to improvethe processing capabilities andupgrade quality levels in almostall the range of offering individual slotsfor serious processing houses,the BOARD is giving space forindividual and groups offarmers to take to modernmeans of processing and valueaddition. The whole processbrings in sharp rise in qualitylevels and will help the farmersto bargain for their qualityproducts to secure rise in increased pressure bymajor SPICE consumingcountries in Europe and the USare demanding more of qualitycompliance by producingcountries like INDIA . The recenttrends among the consumers toselect safe quality food hasimposed one more preconditionthat only those suppliers whocan meet the aspirations of theconsumers can stay in theprocessing and export Indian SPICE industry isin the threshold of meetingthese emerging the Indian export ofspices has crossed the US $ Ibillion mark in 2007-08, settingSeptember 20087 SPICE INDIAa new record in business, thefuture is overcast with lots ofchallenges and uncertaintiesrelating to definitions of qualitylevels.

10 The Indian share inworld SPICE market has gone upto 47 per cent in quantity and40 per cent in value. It is alsoimportant to note that majorcompeting countries like Chinahas imposed ban on theirexports of certain SPICES forwant of required guarantees onquality dominance of bulkspices in the Indian exportbasket of SPICES is giving wayto value added SPICES . The shareof value added SPICE productsin exports is on the increasesignaling the fact that itsdemand is on the rise. SpiceOils and oleoresins, curry pastesand powders and mint productsare the major value added itemsfrom SPICES . A total of 39,200tonnes of these products wereexported during 2007-08bringing in foreign exchangerevenue to the tune of crores.