Turmeric needs remunerative price: Kavitha

Hyderabad | Monday | 18th June, 2018

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TRS MP Kavitha today urged the Centre to provide remunerative price to commercial crop Turmeric and boost its exports. The exports of Turmeric crop have been reduced drastically to 3 lakh tons now from 7 lakh tons in 1990. The workshop will sure come up with solution and the government will follow it to help the turmeric farmers, Kavitha affirmed. The spices board has been urging for the MSP to turmeric to help the farmers and the latter ignoring to set up a turmeric board for the past three decades she said. She reiterated that the Centre should set up a Spices Board in Nizamabad..