Herbs and Spices
Herbs and spices can be a high value crop demanding good prices. They are normally dried and packaged before being sold.
General Resources
Cardamom Processing
This Technical Brief describes the harvesting, treatment, drying, grading and packing of cardamom.
Cinnamon Processing
Cinnamon is obtained from the bark of an evergreen tree. It gets its distinctive smell from an oil in the bark.
Clove Processing
Cloves are used to flavour foods and drinks. They are also used to produce essential oil used in dentistry and as a...
Coriander Processing
Coriander is used to flavour foods as well as being a major ingredient of curry powder.
Cumin Processing
Cumin is an annual herb that grows to a height of 20-80cm. It has white or purple flowers and produces seed-like fruits.
Drying Chillies
The chilli (Capsicum annum) is native to Mexico but now grown and used in most parts of the world.
Ginger Processing
Ginger is valued for the dried ginger spice and preserved, crystallised ginger.
Nutmeg and Mace
The nutmeg tree yields two spices: nutmeg - the kernel of the seed - and mace - the aril covering the shell of the seed.
Pepper Processing
Pepper processing looks at the main post harvest activities. These activities include sorting, threshing and drying.
Processing Cats Claw
Cats claw is a climbing plant that grows in the Andes. It is used to make a variety of medicines.
Processing Cats Claw - Procesamiento de la Uña de Gato
Uña de gato es una planta trepadora que crece en los Andes. Se utiliza para hacer una variedad de medicamentos.
Spice Processing
Small-scale processing of spices can be economically and socially successful.
