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Govt Preparing Policy to Promote Cardamom

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November 22:   Government is preparing to bring a policy to promote cardamom production. The Ministry of Agriculture Development informed that the government is preparing the policy due to the decline in the export of cardamom in the recent times. Deputy spoke person of the ministry, Shankar Sapkota, said that the ministry has started taking suggestions, ideas and opinion from the concerned stakeholders for promotion of cardamom.

According to him, the ministry has taken suggestions from the National Planning Commission, Ministry of Co-operatives and Poverty Alleviation, Ministry of Land Reform and Forest to prepare the Cardamom Promotion Policy. Similarly, the ministry has also sought opinion from Finance Ministry and Ministry of Soil Conservation .

According to the ministry, all the ministries have given them feedbacks and suggestions except the Finance Ministry.

“We sought suggestions from five different government bodies,” Sapkota said , “But we still have not obtained any feedback from the Finance Ministry.”

Sapkota said that the policy will be finalized and forwarded to the council of ministers once they get the feedback from the Finance Ministry.

The draft prepared by the ministry includes various provisions keeping in view the benefits of the exporters.

Ministry expects that the current problems seen in the cardamom production will be automatically solved after the implementation of this policy.

Cardamom is one of the main cash crops of Nepal. Cardamom is exported to the foreign countries. But, as compared to the past, the export of cardamom has declined.

In the recent years, Nepal has been exporting cardamom worth Rs 3 to 5 billion annually. Data of Nepal Business Promotion Center show that in fiscal year 2015/16, cardamom worth around Rs 4.62 billion was exported. But the export declined to Rs 3.6 billion in FY 2016/17. The ministry informed that cardamom production takes place in 25 districts of the country.  

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