date:Aug 18, 2015
non-kanchicut).
While India consumes about 90% of the produce,Guatemala and Tanzania export the entire production. The average exports of cardamom per year stand at around 23000 tons. Saudi Arabia claims to be the single largest importer of the commodity. During 2010 ,Saudi Arabia imported about 9600MT cardamom worth US$150000 followed by European Union(1,593MT: $27,741). Other major importer countries are Kuwait,United Arab Emirates,China,Japan,Hong Kong,Netherlands,Singapore and USA.India is