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As the demand is increasing day by day, due to the shortfall in production, cardamom has not been exported as much as the previous year. But more cash has come in. 98% of the cardamom produced in Nepal is exported to India.
Businessmen say that there is a high demand in the international market at the moment. According to the data of the Customs Department, in the seven months of the current financial year (2081/82), cardamom worth Rs. The Customs Department said that 3 million 28 thousand 495 kilograms of cardamom were exported.
During this period of the previous fiscal year, 3183 thousand 560 kg of cardamom worth 4 billion 443526 thousand was exported. Due to the increase in prices, it is mentioned in the data that almost one billion rupees more has been imported in this year's low volume exports compared to last year.
Balamani Baral, President of Cardamom John Taplejung, says that this year the price has been the best since the last 10 years. But he said that he could not break the record of 2072/73. This year, the price per mana (one mana of 40 kg) is up to 1 lakh 9 thousand in the village.
Khem Sangraula, a cardamom businessman from Tehrathum, says that the selling price has reached 1 lakh 12 thousand rupees in Sagranti market. Although the product is not the same as before This year, the price was according to the wishes and demands of the farmers," Sangraula said. Baral says that there is a 20 percent reduction in production this year compared to last year.
'The price is different every year, sometimes it decreases rapidly and sometimes it increases rapidly,' he said, 'the disease and pest and drought are also the same, so the production is decreasing.'
According to the statistics branch of the Ministry of Agriculture, about 7,000 tons are produced annually in Nepal. The Federation of Nepal Cardamom Traders has said that this year it is around five thousand metric tons. According to the ministry, cardamom is cultivated in 43 districts of the country.
Cardamom zone claims to produce the most cardamom in Nepal in Taplejung. Baral said that production will be up to 2800 kg.
