India was too reliant on chilli to maintain a decent export performance in spices for 2009/10. So which areas might the country turn to for success this campaign? It is a sobering thought that India's marginally better spice exports (at lower average prices) in 2009/10 would have been substantially worse on both fronts had it not been for an impressive showing by chilli. Figures provided to The Public Ledger before their official release by the Indian Spices Board show that between April 2009 and March 2010, India exported 476,990 tonnes of spices compared with 472,756 tonnes, but received only Rs52.69bn ($1.11bn) for them versus Rs53.13bn in the previous fiscal year... Read More