{"id":29431,"date":"2025-01-15T10:49:53","date_gmt":"2025-01-15T05:19:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=29431"},"modified":"2025-04-09T03:02:24","modified_gmt":"2025-04-08T21:32:24","slug":"national-turmeric-board","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/national-turmeric-board\/","title":{"rendered":"National Turmeric Board"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About National Turmeric Board:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It will <strong>provide leadership on turmeric related matters<\/strong>, augment the efforts, and facilitate greater coordination with Spices Board and other Government agencies in development and growth of the turmeric sector.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Composition of Board<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>A<strong> Chairperson<\/strong> to be appointed by the Central Government.<\/li>\n<li>A <strong>Secretary<\/strong> to be appointed by the Department of Commerce.<\/li>\n<li>Members from the Ministry of AYUSH, Departments of Pharmaceuticals, Agriculture &amp; Farmers Welfare, Commerce &amp; Industry of the Union Government.<\/li>\n<li>Representatives from the top two turmeric growing states of <strong>Maharashtra and Telangana <\/strong>and from the state of Meghalaya. States will be represented on the <strong>Board by rotation.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Select national\/state institutions involved in research, representatives of turmeric farmers and exporters.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Mandate<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>The Board will focus on key areas such as <strong>research and development, value addition to turmeric products<\/strong>, and promoting awareness of the spice\u2019s medicinal and essential properties.<\/li>\n<li>It will also work on <strong>improving turmeric yield<\/strong>, enhancing logistics and supply chains, and exploring new international markets for turmeric.<\/li>\n<li>Ensuring quality and safety standards for turmeric production and exports will also be a critical aspect of the Board\u2019s mandate.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Headquarter:<\/strong> Nizamabad, Telangana<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Status of Turmeric in India<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Turmeric, often referred to as <strong>the \u201cGolden Spice,\u201d<\/strong> holds immense economic potential for Indian farmers, particularly those in 20 states including Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Madhya Pradesh, and Meghalaya.<\/li>\n<li>The <strong>largest producing states<\/strong> of Turmeric are Maharashtra, Telangana, Karnataka and Tamil Nadu.<\/li>\n<li>The <strong>leading export markets<\/strong> for Indian Turmeric are Bangladesh, UAE, USA and Malaysia.<\/li>\n<li><strong>India is responsible<\/strong> for over <strong>70% of the world\u2019s turmeric production<\/strong>, with 30 varieties of turmeric being grown in the country.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><strong>Q1: What is the nodal ministry of the National turmeric Board?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>The Ministry of Commerce will be the nodal department providing funds and infrastructure for the NTB, which will look into increased demand, usage, production, research, market linkage, exports and so on.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/pib.gov.in\/PressReleasePage.aspx?PRID=2092719\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><strong>PIB<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>National Turmeric Board provides leadership on turmeric related matters, augment the efforts, and facilitate greater coordination with Spices Board and other Government agencies in development and growth of the turmeric sector.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":29432,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-29431","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\/29431","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=29431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29431\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}