| On the Spices Board's activities in Andhra Pradesh, the board chairman said that around 60 villages had been covered in the districts of Guntur, Warangal and Prakasam districts to promote organic farming with bio pesticides and also ferment traps as biocontrol agents. The board is keen to extend the scheme to any number of villages in the state, if the state government renders necessary assistance. Jose also said India had a great potential in the area of herbal formulations, the global market for which was likely to touch $ 80 million by 2010. |
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