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The International Pepper Community has joined hands with All India Spices Exporters Forum to facilitate and strengthen the knowledge base of the farming community as well as to establish a market link.
The Jakarta-based IPC has come out with an app which would be disseminated and introduced by the All India Spices Exporters Forum (AISEF) among the Indian farming community.
A letter of understanding to this effect was signed by Hoang Thi Lien, Executive Director, IPC, and Prakash Namboodiri, Chairman, AISEF, in Kochi.
The app, which will be launched in August, is an interactive platform designed to assist farmers in pepper cultivation practices, Namboodiri said.
The app will help farmers to identify the pest or disease affecting the crop and take control measures.
Any changes in recommendation or technology are updated real time onto the farmers’ mobile phone.
It will also assist them with long-term global price trends in pepper markets, thereby equipping them to take right decision in terms of enhancing area of cultivation or holding stocks in anticipation of better prices.
It also has a feature on market linkage.
Namboodiri also stressed upon the need for bringing major changes in the business so as to take the Indian spice industry to $5 billion from the current level of $3 billion.
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