Other Plant Disease — India
Large cardamom yields are falling dramatically across the northeast Himalayas, where a fungal infection threatens one of the world’s most expensive spices. Sikkim accounts for almost 90 per cent of India’s large cardamom production, making India one of the world’s largest producers and exporters of the spice.
But all of this is now at stake. Surveys show that within the last decade, the cultivation area of this crop dropped by half. When large cardamom production was first hit in the late
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