Kerala Spices Board launches quality improvement programme for farmers
The Hindu
KAU project for organic cultivation of cardamom completes a year
The Spices Board has launched a Quality Improvement Training Programme for farmers to help them avoid harmful chemicals in cultivation of crops like cardamom with a view to preventing export rejection. Spices Board sources said that there had been some instances of rejection in the past but the Board authorities were following up the issues involved regularly to help farmers overcome the problem.
The Quality Improvement Training Programmes will be held regularly to help farmers and to create awareness among them about the use of chemicals in cultivation of spices.
The Kerala Agricultural University (KAU) has, in the meanwhile, initiated a three-year programme to try organic cultivation of cardamom. The programme has completed a year of its operations and the results will be studied in detail, KAU sources said.
Around 440 MBBS graduates of 2021 are not required to undergo one year of compulsory rural service as per the bond signed by them while joining the medical course through government-quota seats in 2015 as the High Court of Karnataka has said the law, enacted in 2012 for mandatory rural service, remained unenforced for 10 years as it was published in the official gazette only in July 2022.