Need to produce clean spices at competitive prices: Radha Mohan
Singh
27/01/2015 16:30
The Agriculture Minister Radha Mohan Singh on Tuesday said that concerted efforts are needed to produce clean spices at competitive prices in order to sustain India’s share in world market.
Speaking at the inauguration of the National Conference on Development and Export of Spices in Pusa campus, New Delhi, the minister said that spices farmers have been facing the problem of low productivity, fluctuating prices coupled with biotic and abiotic stress resulting in low farm income.
However, efforts of diversification, unfolding of nutraceutical and health benefit of spices and farming system models have provided better opportunity for improving income from spices, he added.
Singh said that ICAR-Indian Institute of Spices Research Calicut and National Research Centre on Seed Spices Ajmer have pioneered in developing a number of high yielding varieties and production technologies.
Referring to India’s status in World Spice Trade, Singh said that the export earnings showed a spectacular growth during the period from 2005-06 to 2013-14 as the earning increased from 592.9 million USD to 2267.67 million USD. The volume of spices exported increased from 350,363 metric tons in 2005-06 to 817,250 metric tons in 2013-14.
Singh said that Spices have been playing an important role in the Indian agrarian economy as it accounts for 5 per centof the agriculture GDP of the country. The agro-climatic conditions in the country provide an ideal habitat for the natural growth of various spices.
27/01/2015 16:30
The Agriculture Minister Radha Mohan Singh on Tuesday said that concerted efforts are needed to produce clean spices at competitive prices in order to sustain India’s share in world market.
Speaking at the inauguration of the National Conference on Development and Export of Spices in Pusa campus, New Delhi, the minister said that spices farmers have been facing the problem of low productivity, fluctuating prices coupled with biotic and abiotic stress resulting in low farm income.
However, efforts of diversification, unfolding of nutraceutical and health benefit of spices and farming system models have provided better opportunity for improving income from spices, he added.
Singh said that ICAR-Indian Institute of Spices Research Calicut and National Research Centre on Seed Spices Ajmer have pioneered in developing a number of high yielding varieties and production technologies.
Referring to India’s status in World Spice Trade, Singh said that the export earnings showed a spectacular growth during the period from 2005-06 to 2013-14 as the earning increased from 592.9 million USD to 2267.67 million USD. The volume of spices exported increased from 350,363 metric tons in 2005-06 to 817,250 metric tons in 2013-14.
Singh said that Spices have been playing an important role in the Indian agrarian economy as it accounts for 5 per centof the agriculture GDP of the country. The agro-climatic conditions in the country provide an ideal habitat for the natural growth of various spices.
