New Delhi: Following the successful e-auction of tea at a limited level, the Department of Commerce is keen on extending e-auction to another important plantation crop, cardamom. A guideline for implementing e-auction of cardamom has been launched with the requisite development of software for electronic auction having been put in place by TCS, currently under testing. Implementation at the Auction Centre, Cardamom Planter's Association, Bodinayikanur, which is the pilot centre, will be done this month. Also, detailed testing on aim hardware at the board's headquarters with sufficient number of bidder terminals and trial run before planters, auctioneers and bidders would also be done.
The system would help plug collusive behaviour in price fixation, besides broad-basing the system itself to the growers' advantage. In Coonoor, there is 100 per cent live auction (both leaf and dust), while other centres in the South conduct 100 per cent live auction on leaf only. In Siliguri there is 25 per cent of leaf, while there is no e-auction of tea in Kolkata. Implementation of e-auction of tea on a limited scale has convinced the Tea Board that some changes will be needed in the extant system; suggestions have been received to separate the tea portal and e-auction, even while retaining the features of the portal.
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