INDIAN cardamom growers in Kerala and Tamil Nadu have floated South India Green Cardamom Company, which will take up direct marketing of the produce both within the country and overseas. Green Cardamom, which is registered under the companies act and promoted by 50 planters, will start its first trial retail marketing in Madurai next month, T. Ashok Kumar, one of the promoters and president of the Kerala Cardamom Growers Union, told India's Business Line newspaper. The union plans to bring all the 25,000 planters registered with the Spices Board into the public limited company, in which traders would also be given shares, he said
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