Telangana to get a Spice Park in Nizamabad
The Dollar Business Bureau Upon receiving a proposal from the Telangana government for setting up Spice Park at Nizamabad, Telangana for turmeric, the Central Government has conveyed that the Spices Board would extend all technical support if land and funds for establishing the Spice Park is provided by the State. The Central Government has also approved the setting up of a Spice Development Agency (SDA) for Telangana with headquarters at Warangal for co-coordinating with the State / Central Agencies implementing programmes for research, production, marketing, quality improvement and export of spices, including chilli and turmeric. The Government implements several programmes for providing assistance to spice farmers, including Chilli and Turmeric farmers, which, on one hand aim at increasing production and ensuring remunerative prices ...
Spice Development Agencies to help boost production and exports
The Dollar Business Bureau To ensure better management of spices and meet domestic requirements, Spices Board India, Ministry of Commerce, Government of India, constituted advisory committee called ‘Spice Development Agency (SDA)’, to support various spice growing regions in the country. The regions to be designated as SDAs include Guntur (Andhra Pradesh), Gangtok (Sikkim), Haveri (Karnataka), Unjha (Gujarat), Jodhpur (Rajasthan), Guwahati (Assam), Guna (Madhya Pradesh), Barbanki (Uttar Pradesh), Erode (Tamilnadu), Mumbai (Maharashtra). Each SDA, to be set up across ten spice growing regions covering ten States, will have Chief Secretary of the State Government, officials representing the Ministry of Commerce and Ministry of Agriculture, GoI, Agriculture Produce Market Committee representatives, experts from regional Agricultural Universities, Joint Director General of Foreign Trade, representatives ...
