PLANTATION ESTABLISHMENT AND MANAGEMENT FOR LARGE CARDAMOM (AMOMUM SUBULATUM ROXB.)

A.K. VIJAYAN¹*, B.A. GUDADE², V.M. ESWARAN³, A. VALLATH⁴, G. PANDITHURAI⁵, R. SINDHU⁶, MANOJ OOMMEN⁷, MANESH KUNJUMON^8
1Indian Cardamom Research Institute, Spices Board India (Ministry of Commerce and Industry, Govt. of India), Myladumpara, Idukki, 685 553, Kerala, India
²Indian Cardamom Research Institute, Spices Board India (Ministry of Commerce and Industry, Govt. of India), Myladumpara, Idukki, 685 553, Kerala, India
³Indian Cardamom Research Institute, Spices Board India (Ministry of Commerce and Industry, Govt. of India), Myladumpara, Idukki, 685 553, Kerala, India
⁴Indian Cardamom Research Institute, Spices Board India (Ministry of Commerce and Industry, Govt. of India), Myladumpara, Idukki, 685 553, Kerala, India
⁵Indian Cardamom Research Institute, Spices Board India (Ministry of Commerce and Industry, Govt. of India), Myladumpara, Idukki, 685 553, Kerala, India
⁶Indian Cardamom Research Institute, Spices Board India (Ministry of Commerce and Industry, Govt. of India), Myladumpara, Idukki, 685 553, Kerala, India
⁷Indian Cardamom Research Institute, Spices Board India (Ministry of Commerce and Industry, Govt. of India), Myladumpara, Idukki, 685 553, Kerala, India
⁸Indian Cardamom Research Institute, Spices Board India (Ministry of Commerce and Industry, Govt. of India), Myladumpara, Idukki, 685 553, Kerala, India
* Corresponding Author : drvijayannambiar@gmail.com

Received : 02-03-2019     Accepted : 12-03-2019     Published : 30-03-2019
Volume : 11     Issue : 6       Pages : 8115 - 8117
Int J Agr Sci 11.6 (2019):8115-8117

Keywords : Large Cardamom, Nutrient Management, Shade management, Water Management, Weed Management
Academic Editor : Prof Dr Md Moin Ansari, Dr Milan M Chudasama, O. P. Bansal
Conflict of Interest : None declared
Acknowledgements/Funding : Authors are thankful to Indian Cardamom Research Institute, Spices Board India (Ministry of Commerce and Industry, Govt. of India), Myladumpara, Idukki, 685 553, Kerala, India
Author Contribution : All authors equally contributed

Large cardamom (Amomum subulatum Roxb.), a member of the family, Zingiberaceae is the main cash crop cultivated in the sub-Himalayan state of Sikkim and Darjeeling district of West Bengal. It is also cultivated in parts of Uttarakhand and in some other North Eastern Hill states like Arunachal Pradesh, Nagaland, Mizoram, Manipur, Meghalaya and Assam. The large cardamom plant is a perennial herb with subterranean rhizomes with leafy shoots. Propagation of large cardamom is mainly done through seeds and suckers in field level. However, tissue culture techniques also used for propagation now a days. The propagation through seeds enables production of large number of seedlings. On the other hand, producing planting material through suckers ensures true to the type/parents with a high productivity if they are collected from high yielding, disease free plants. This techniques produce sucker ready for field planting in next season itself. The suckers collected from high yielding disease-free, elite plantations having one mature tiller with one or two immature tillers or vegetative buds is used as planting units. This being an economically important cash crop, there is a need to increase the area under its cultivation for increasing the productivity of the crop in this region. The plantation establishment and management practices for large cardamom are presented in this paper.

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