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Environmental Challenges in Spice Cultivation and Mitigation Measures
DSpice at Indian Institute of Spices Research
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ANANDARAJ, M
DINESH, R SRINIVASAN, V ZACHARIAH, JOHN T |
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2015-01-20T08:52:16Z
2015-01-20T08:52:16Z 2014 |
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Spices Handbook 2014: 13-15(2014)
http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/1225 |
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| Description |
India is known as the 'Home of Spices' and still continues to hog the lime light as far as spice cultivation, production and export are concerned. No wonder, history shows that spices have played a hugely important role in the European Renaissance, and supplier for most of the countries in Europe was India. The estimated growth rate for spices demand in the world is around 3.19%, which is a shade above the population growth rate. There are about 109 spices listed by International Organization for Standardization and India grows about 60 of these spices. While India remains a major player in spices, it is important to note that there are insurmountable environmental challenges that interplay to make spices cultivation arduous. Some of the major challenges include poor/ degraded soils, debilitating diseases, prolonged drought, inconsistent rainfall, chemical residues in the produce, aflatoxin contamination, adulterants etc. |
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2718070 bytes
application/pdf |
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en
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CommodityIndia.com
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Spice Cultivation
Mitigation Measures Environmental Challenges |
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Environmental Challenges in Spice Cultivation and Mitigation Measures
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Article
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