The new portal starts offevolved operation on a pilot foundation at Bodinayakanur.
Elachi Online, a new incorporated portal for cardamom trade, has started out functioning on a pilot foundation at the number one alternate centre at Bodinayakanur in Tamil Nadu ultimate week through buying and selling round 65 tonnes.

KCPMC Ltd, a leading name in the cardamom industry, has released the portal with the support of the Gurugram-primarily based Intello Labs, a startup formed with the aid of alumni of IIT Delhi.

The new portal has multiple greater facilities, that are fantastically beneficial for both dealers and customers of cardamom with a host of latest features including grades, liter weight and coloration grades. Technologically superior imaging machines and algorithms that define the character of the cardamom also are protected in the portal. The statistics compiled will enhance accuracy, leading to the trade of greater volumes at the portal.

These statistics capabilities are hitherto unavailable within the cardamom industry, which might be still depending on the conventional technique along with human grading, examining physical samples and analysing, which may also impact the accuracy or have obstacles on volumes, stated Jojo George, Managing Director, KCPMC.

“We are introducing a new system with the help of Artificial Intelligence wherein three predominant ingredients of cardamom change which includes coloration, clutter weight and grading within the to be had masses can be technologically ascertained. These are the 3 critical parameters for cardamom change on which the rate discovery is based upon. With greater players joining the portal, the character of cardamom alternate will exchange, thereby making it less complicated and more obvious among stakeholders”, he stated.