date:Aug 18, 2015
cardamom has a history of hardly 200 years of domestication in Sri Lanka and about 85 years of domestication history in Guatemala. German settlers introduced cardamom to the Usambara Mountain area of Tanzania in the 1890s though large scale cultivation started only in1954, with the distribution of a nucleus source of 10 seedlings to farmers by the Amani Botanical Garden in the Usambaras.
3.Producing countries and production
Though India once had a virtual monopoly on small cardamom production