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 ...
