{"id":74578,"date":"2020-12-28T12:12:48","date_gmt":"2020-12-28T06:42:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=74578"},"modified":"2021-03-05T11:47:43","modified_gmt":"2021-03-05T06:17:43","slug":"turmeric-in-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/turmeric-in-india\/","title":{"rendered":"Turmeric in India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"LC20lb DKV0Md\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Turmeric in India<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/international\/sri-lanka-police-apprehend-20000-kg-turmeric-smuggled-from-india\/article33430837.ece\">The Hindu<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>News:<\/strong>\u00a0Sri Lankan police have seized 20,000 kg of turmeric smuggled by sea, reportedly from India amid a shortage persisting since Sri Lanka banned imports to support local farmers in the pandemic year.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Turmeric (Curcuma longa):\u00a0<\/strong>It is a perennial herbaceous plant of the ginger family. The plant\u2019s underground stems or rhizomes have been used as a spice, dye, medicine, and religious maker since antiquity.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Significance:\u00a0<\/strong>The spice\u2019s color comes mainly from curcumin, a bright yellow phenolic compound that has been in the news for its ostensible potential to fight cancer. As a result, the demand for turmeric with high curcumin content has risen.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Climate:\u00a0<\/strong>It requires temperatures between 20 and 30 \u00b0C (68 and 86 \u00b0F) and a considerable amount of annual rainfall to thrive.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Largest Producer:\u00a0<\/strong>India is the largest producer and exporter of turmeric in the world. Turmeric occupies about 6% of the total area under spices and condiments in India.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Largest Producer State:\u00a0<\/strong>Telangana was the leading producer of turmeric in India during 2018. Maharashtra and Tamil Nadu were second and third in the ranking that year.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Turmeric in India Source: The Hindu News:\u00a0Sri Lankan police have seized 20,000 kg of turmeric smuggled by sea, reportedly from India amid a shortage persisting since Sri Lanka banned imports to support local farmers in the pandemic year. Facts: Turmeric (Curcuma longa):\u00a0It is a perennial herbaceous plant of the ginger family. The plant\u2019s underground stems&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/turmeric-in-india\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Turmeric in India<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1427,1360],"class_list":["post-74578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-public","tag-agri_4","tag-sec_2","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704956022},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74578\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}