Cardamom auction results are a table, not a rumour. Each published row is one licensed e-auction session: an auctioneer, a centre, a date, arrived and sold kilograms, a weighted average and a maximum. SpiceValue stores those Board rows so you can search them instead of forwarding a screenshot.
The live board is for the last few days. The auction archive is for proof — every small-cardamom session we have from Puttady (Idukki, Kerala) and Bodinayakanur / Bodi (Theni, Tamil Nadu). This guide is how to use that archive without treating every row as interchangeable.
What a result row actually is
A result is a session summary from Spices Board India. It is not a village bid and it is not an export offer.
Typical fields:
- Date of auction — when the book ran, which is often “yesterday” if you check in the morning
- Auctioneer — who put the lots up
- E-auction centre — Puttady or Bodinayakanur
- Arrived / sold (kg) — supply shown versus demand that cleared
- Average (₹/kg) — value-weighted print; this is the number to quote
- Max (₹/kg) — the top lot, not the market
If you only remember the max, you will over-read thin books. If you ignore sold quantity, you will treat a vacuum as a bid. For how those fields work in a Kerala session, read how to read Kerala e-auction results.
Live board vs archive
Use two screens:
- Live prices — latest small-cardamom days, side by side, plus any Cochin key-spice snapshot
- Auctions — searchable history: auctioneer, city, centre, date
Do not scroll thousands of rows to answer “what did Puttady print last session?” Do not make a seasonal call from three live cards. Cardamom auction results for a same-day decision live on the board; results for a week or a month live in the archive and on charts.
How to search without fooling yourself
On Auctions:
- Filter centre first (Puttady or Bodinayakanur), not the whole country.
- Search an auctioneer only if you actually send lots to that book.
- Compare sold vs arrived on the same row as the average.
- Read both centres before you call it the Indian print. A Puttady jump that Bodi does not confirm is a local book, not a belt re-price.
City and auctioneer columns are useful over a month. They are noise for tomorrow’s jeep.
Kerala and Tamil Nadu are one crop, two halls
People search “Kerala cardamom auction” and mean Puttady. That is fair — a large share of Idukki small cardamom is discovered there. Bodi is not a footnote. It is the other belt hall, often with a different auctioneer mix and a different quality day.
Indian cardamom auction results are really both centres. SpiceValue shows them together so you do not confuse local tightness with a national move. The comparison method is in Puttady vs Bodinayakanur cardamom price.
What this archive is not
- Not large-cardamom (Northeast) auctions — SpiceValue does not store those
- Not a pepper, turmeric or cumin mandi
- Not a forecast. History is on charts; the AI outlook, with its uncertainty band, is on Predictions
- Not the legal Board record. For disputes, go back to Spices Board India
SpiceValue is a reading layer on public small-cardamom e-auctions. The result is useful when you name the centre, the date and the sold quantity. Open the archive for the table. Open cardamom price today if you still need the meaning of the average versus the max.
