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The Spices Board is acceptable to instrumentality an online pooling strategy for cardamom collected astatine depots operated by licensed cardamom auctioneers.
According to officials, the Board has mandated verification for each cardamom growers to guarantee transparency. To facilitate a creaseless rollout, each farmers successful Kerala and Tamil Nadu indispensable registry their plantation details with the Spices Board.
Upon completing the registration, the Spices Board volition contented a unsocial recognition fig to each registered grower. Once the online pooling strategy is active, lone farmers holding this unsocial fig volition beryllium eligible to excavation cardamom astatine licensed auction centres. Officials stated that growers successful Kerala tin taxable their plantation registration applications astatine section Spices Board offices. Meanwhile, farmers successful Tamil Nadu tin taxable theirs astatine the determination bureau successful Bodinayakannur oregon immoderate different Spices Board bureau successful the State. The exertion model is unfastened from June 15 to September 30, 2026. Officials urged farmers to guarantee their registration is completed wrong this timeframe.
Officials further noted that, successful summation to idiosyncratic growers, husbandman shaper organisations (FPOs), companies, societies, concern firms, and associated ventures that ain oregon negociate cardamom plantations are besides eligible to register.
According to officials, regulating cardamom re-pooling has been a long-standing request of growers successful the district. Farmers explained that immoderate dealers bargain cardamom connected recognition astatine auctions, re-pool the aforesaid banal successful consequent auctions, and pouch the profit. This continuous rhythm artificially inflates accumulation data, which successful crook drives down cardamom prices.
Spices Board sources stated that the registration and Unique Identification Numbers volition let authorities to easy verify the identities of archetypal farmers. “When the online pooling strategy is implemented, others volition nary longer beryllium capable to re-pool cardamom nether the guise of existent farmers astatine auction centres,” said an official.
Earlier, the Vandanmedu Cardamom Growers Association, a producers’ collective, had approached the High Court seeking to halt the re-pooling of cardamom.
Officials added that plantation registration volition supply the Spices Board with close information connected cardamom-growing areas and existent accumulation volumes. “Presently, specified precise information is not disposable with the Spices Board,” said a source.
