Spices and Condiments (1+1)

Shade regulation and replanting

Shade regulation

Shade regulation

• Tall growing trees are trimmed regularly to a height of 4-5 m to encourage the spreading habit with renewed vegetative vigour to provide uniform shade and higher quantity of leaf-litter.
Replanting

• Large cardamom starts bearing from the 3rd year after the final transplanting into the main field and continues to yield up to 25 to 30 years; but the economical production period is from the 5th to 10th year after which the yield decreases.
  
• Thus, replanting has to be done after the 9th year, gradually, as it is difficult and uneconomical to destroy the entire plantation at one time.
  
• However, the removal of the entire plantation is resorted to when virus diseases appear