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This spice is obtained from the styles of the flowers of Crocus sativus. Information on cultivation of these plants and the varieties available. ...
http://www.pfaf.org/database/plants.php?Crocus+sativus
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- Post Harvest Management Turmeric
Provides information on harvesting, curing, drying, polishing, grading, packing, storage, grinding, milling and the extraction of oleoresins. Turmeric readiness for harvest is indicated by the drying of the plant and stem, approximately 7 to 10 month ...
http://www.fao.org/inpho/content/compend/text/ch29/ch29_02.htm
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- The Growing Your Own Ginger
Ginger needs rich, welldrained, moist soil and plenty of indirect sunlight and water. It is frostsensitive, and mostly grown in the subtropics and tropics. It will grow from a healthy piece of root planted in spring. Make sure you get ginger roots wh ...
http://www.theepicentre.com/Spices/ginger3.html
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- Black Pepper
Black pepper is one of the oldest spice crops. It is consumed throughout the world more than any other spice, as black, white, and green peppercorns. India is a major exporter and there is long established tradition of commercial cultivation by small ...
http://www.plantcultures.org/plants/black_pepper_production__trade.html
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- Pepper and Chillies
Piper nigrum belongs to the family Piperaceae. The family is dicotyledonous, but the stem has characteristic lines intermediate between those of the dicotyledons and the monocotyledons, i.e. the vascular bundles lie in two or more circles. The stem i ...
http://www.krishiworld.com/html/condi_spices2.html
| | - Post Harvest Management Ginger
For fresh products and preserves, one should harvest rhizomes while they are still tender, low in pungency and fiber content, therefore before they are fully mature. Harvest for dried spices and oil is best at full maturity, when the leaves turn yell ...
http://www.fao.org/inpho/content/compend/text/ch27/ch27_02.htm
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- The Garlic Production
Garlic has been used as food, a condiment, and for medicinal purposes for over 5,000 years. It is thought to have originated in central Asia, and then later brought to the Mediterranean area. Garlic Allium sativum belongs to the Amaryllidaceae family ...
http://www.omafra.gov.on.ca/english/crops/facts/97-007.htm
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Information on this spice, its history, spice description, preparation and storage, uses, plant description and cultivation. The nutmeg tree is a large evergreen native to the Moluccas the Spice Islands and is now cultivated in the West Indies. It pr ...
http://www.theepicentre.com/Spices/nutmeg.html
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- Ginger and Turmeric
Ginger is an important commercial crop grown for its aromatic rhizomes which are used both as a spice and a medicine. It is cultivated in almost all the tropical and subtropical parts of India, especially in Kerala, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, West Bengal ...
http://www.krishiworld.com/html/condi_spices3.html
| | - The Chili Pepper Production
Detailed costs to produce chili pepper in Coachella Valley, Riverside County, California are presented in this study. The hypothetical farm used in this report consists of 75 acres of which 20 acres are in chili pepper production. This study consists ...
http://www.sfc.ucdavis.edu/research/chili.html
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