India's Targeted Public Distribution System (tpds) gives subsidised essential commodities to economically weaker households. Till 1997, the system had supplied subsidised commodities to
Jacob Sebastian no longer wants to invest in his vanilla plantation. He still has more than 1,000 vanilla plants intercropped in his half hectare (ha) rubber plantation in Kerala's Kottayam
Coal tar, paper mill effluent, what else What we know as vanilla, the queen of spice, is not vanilla. It smells like it (somewhat). It can even look like it. But it is not the real thing, which
Is our ice cream natural or synthetic? The 2005 Export-Import Bank of India (exim bank) study on vanilla and its potential in India says that labelling laws for ice cream can create a viable
The technology challenge Labelling or mandatory use of natural vanilla will go a long way to promote this crop. But this step will be incomplete unless accompanied with technologies to cure and
In 2004, with the market crashing around them, vanilla farmers in Kerala and Tamil Nadu came together with the help of the Spices Board of India to form a cooperative called Vanilla India
Although there are 110 varieties of vanilla, only three varieties are grown on a commercial scale. These include Vanilla planifolia also known as the bourbon variety, Vanilla Tahitensis or the
Going Indian natural Eco Agri Research Foundation (EARF), based in Mysore, Karnataka, has got the fair trade certificate by the UK-based Fairtrade Labelling Organisation International (FLO).
