{"id":16420,"date":"2025-02-04T10:41:08","date_gmt":"2025-02-04T05:11:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=16420"},"modified":"2025-04-04T09:16:38","modified_gmt":"2025-04-04T03:46:38","slug":"cardamom-cultivation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/cardamom-cultivation\/","title":{"rendered":"Cardamom"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Cardamom Latest News<\/h2>\n<p>An international team of researchers have identified six species that are close cousins to Elettaria cardamomum, better known as green cardamom.<\/p>\n<h2>About Cardamom<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It belongs to the <strong>Zingiberaceae family<\/strong> and is popularly known as <strong>Queen of Spices.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It is native to the <strong>evergreen rain forests of Western Ghats<\/strong> in South India.<\/li>\n<li>It is cultivated mainly in the Southern States viz; <strong>Kerala, Karnataka and Tamil Nadu.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Required climatic conditions of Cardamom<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Soil:<\/strong> It is grown in <strong>forest loamy soils<\/strong> which are usually acidic in nature with a pH range of 5.0 \u2013 6.5<\/li>\n<li>This crop can be grown at an elevation from 600 to 1500 m.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Temperature:<\/strong> 10 to 35 degree C<\/li>\n<li><strong>Rainfall:<\/strong> 1500 to 4000 mm<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Growth of cardamom is enhanced, when <strong>planted in humus rich soils<\/strong> with low to medium available phosphorus and medium to high available potassium.<\/li>\n<li>It is used as a flavoring agent and drug in traditional medicine.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Newly Identified Cardamom Species<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Of the six, four were previously placed in a <strong>separate genus, Alpinia<\/strong>, while the remaining two have been newly identified and described from Kerala\u2019s Western Ghats regions.<\/li>\n<li>Following the reclassification, the genus Elettaria now has seven species, including <strong>Elettaria cardamomum. E. ensal, E. floribunda, E. involucrata and E. rufescens<\/strong> were earlier placed in the genus Alpinia.<\/li>\n<li>The remaining two are new species, <strong>Elettaria facifera and Elettaria tulipifera<\/strong>, the former described from Kerala\u2019s <strong>Periyar Tiger Reserve<\/strong> in Idukki district and the latter from the Agasthyamalai hills in Thiruvananthapuram district and Munnar<\/li>\n<li>Seed capsules of Elettaria cardamomum provide the <strong>commercial green cardamom.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Cardamom FAQs<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Q1: <\/strong>Which state is famous for cardamom in India?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans: <\/strong>Kerala<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q2: <\/strong>Why is cardamom called the queen of spices?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans:<\/strong> Cardamom, known as the &#8220;Queen of Spices,&#8221; is valued for its aromatic flavor and health benefits.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q3:<\/strong> Which is the largest producer of small cardamom in the world?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans:<\/strong> Guatemala\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/kerala\/green-cardamoms-new-relatives-include-two-species-from-kerala\/article69172775.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">TH<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cardamom is belonging to the Zingiberaceae family AND popularly known as Queen of Spices.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":16421,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-16420","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16420\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}