Turmeric, a labor-intensive crop, requires ten months of care from mid-summer to the end of winter, making its cultivation both time-consuming and resource-intensive.

India has known turmeric is healthy for millennia. The West is finally catching on. So why can't Indian farmers who grow the world's supply profit?

Turmeric cultivation usually starts in the last week of May and continues till August, and a lengthy harvesting process starts from January.

NIZAMABAD: Welcoming the establishment of the National Turmeric Board (NTB), local farmers expressed hope that it would start functioning soon. Turmeric cultivation begins during the monsoon ...