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Union Minister for Agriculture and Farmers’ Welfare Shivraj Singh Chouhan connected Monday (January 5, 2026) said a determination bureau of the Nizamabad (Telangana)-headquartered National Turmeric Board (NTB) would beryllium established successful Erode, on with an accredited turmeric investigating laboratory.
Responding to a petition made by M. Sathyamurthy, caput of the Erode Turmeric Merchants and Godown Owners’ Association, Mr. Chouhan said the NTB functions nether the Ministry of Commerce and Industry and assured helium would instrumentality up the substance with the Ministry to found its determination bureau successful Manjal Maanagaram (Turmeric City). “The Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) volition beryllium directed to found the laboratory successful Erode,” helium said. On the request for processing caller turmeric varieties with precocious curcumin content, the Minister said ICAR would enactment connected it.
He said steps would beryllium taken to marketplace turmeric crossed the state done e-commerce platforms and assured that the Union authorities would enactment against amerciable turmeric trading to guarantee remunerative prices for farmers.
Noting turmeric farmers were facing respective challenges, Mr. Chouhan said machinery would beryllium developed for harvesting, drying, and processing, and that the authorities would soon rotation retired a caller strategy aimed astatine worth summation of turmeric. He besides pointed retired aged retention facilities could beryllium established nether Central authorities schemes with subsidy support.
Earlier, the Minister inspected assorted turmeric varieties connected show connected the turmeric relation premises and enquired astir the medicinal properties of the GI-tagged Erode Virali, a tuber assortment of turmeric. He received petitions from farmers and traders highlighting issues related to turmeric cultivation and selling successful the region. He besides inspected a turmeric tract and interacted with workers.
